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  Technical Committees Presentations        
 
 
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008
Presentation of ISTA's Technical Work
08:30 - 10:00 Session I.
  a. Purity Committee - Purity Committe Report, 2007-2008 Progress (530 KB)
  a. Purity Committee - Guidelines for blower calibration and use of the uniform blowing procedure for Poa pratensis and Dactylis glomerata (66 KB)
  a. Purity Committee - Comparing ISTA and AOSA blowing methods (286 KB)
  a. Purity Committee - Detection of seeds of Orobanche in the tests for purity and other seed determination (373 KB)
  a. Purity Committee - Universal List of Species, Species List (31 KB)
  a. Purity Committee - Universal List of Species, Seed descriptions (496 KB)
  a. Purity Committee - Universal List of Species, List by Crop Group and Region (58 KB)
  b. Germination Committee (2173 KB)
  c. Moisture Committee (102 KB)
10:30 - 12:30 Session II.
  a. Tetrazolium Committee (862 KB)
  b. Vigour Committee (363 KB)
  c. Seed Health Committee - Report 2007-08 (739 KB)
  c. Seed Health Committee -  Comparative Test - Detection and Discrimination of Common Bunt (Tilletia caries) and Dwarf Bunt (Tilletia controversa) of wheat (1571 KB)
  d. Variety Committee - Report (822 KB)
  d. Variety Committee - DNA Working Group (118 KB)
  d. Variety Committee - Comparative Test for a Comparative Test for a "New improved A New improved A-PAGE Method PAGE Method" for the Verification of Varieties of for the Verification of Varieties of Triticum (63 KB)
13:30 - 15:30 Session III.
  a. Flower Seed Committee (272 KB)
  b. Forest Tree and Shrub Seed Committee (5593 KB)
  c. Storage Committee (323 KB)
  d. Advanced Technologies Committee (197 KB)
16:00 - 16:30 Session IV.
  a. Editorial Board (75 KB)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008
Presentation of ISTA's Technical Work

08:30 - 10:30 Session V.
  a. Bulking and Sampling Committee (368 KB)
  b. Statistics Committee - Report (612 KB)
  b. Statistics Committee - Seedcalc8 example (23 KB)
  c. Nomenclature Committee (109 KB)
  d. Method Validation Advisory Group (125 KB)
11:00 - 12:00 Session VI.
  a. Proficiency Test Committee (73 KB)
  b. Audit Programme - Accreditation (525 KB)
12:00 - 12:30 Session VII.
  a. Seed Analyst Training Committee (70 KB)
13:30 -14:30 Session VIII.
  a. Rules Committee (586 KB)

 


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