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In 1993, the Seed Health Committee (formerly the Plant Disease Committee) began development of Guidelines for Comparative Testing of Methods for the Detection of Seed-borne Pathogens. This process has resulted in a complete revision of the method validation process for seed health testing as described in the Handbook of Method Validation (see Method Validation). As part of this process the method descriptions that appeared in the Annexe to Chapter 7 were rewritten into a new standardised format. Each method description is now a fully illustrated, self-contained package that includes full details of the test including media preparation, quality assurance information, pathogen identification and test evaluation. All the methods have been validated and accepted into the Annexe to Chapter 7 of the International Rules for Seed Testing, and have been removed from the Handbook on Seed Health Testing Working Sheets.
Method descriptions are available either as part of the International Rules for Seed Testing or as a separate volume. |
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Latest issue of SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL
(ISTA News Bulletin) No. 138 October 2009 for available download
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PRESS RELEASE
World food security: urgent measures on seed needed
...read more about the outcome of the
Second World Seed Conference 2009
held September 8-10,
in Rome, Italy
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REPORTS
ISTA Annual Meeting June 15-18, 2009 Glattbrugg, Switzerland
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Newly adopted:
Position Paper on ISTA's view regarding the units for the reporting of quantitative results on presence of seeds with specified traits in conventional seed lots
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ISTA Seed Mixture Experiment
ISTA is initiating an experiment to collect information that may be used to determine the reliability of seed mixture test results and establish tolerances.
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Universal List of Species
ISTA has published a list of 130 plant species that accredited laboratories may wish to include in their seed collections
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Accreditation Documents for the Testing of Specified Traits
Related Documents for download
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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
The ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
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ISTA signs Memorandum of Understanding with FAO
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