Congress 2025
The New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries is pleased to invite ISTA to hold the 34th ISTA Congress in Christchurch, New Zealand
The Congress comprised of Seed Symposium “Seed Quality for Global Food Security and Biodiversity”, Discussion Forum on New Breeding Technologies, Technical Committee presentations. The event would provide a great opportunity for seed science professionals and seed industry representatives to meet, discuss and exchange all the aspects of seed production, quality testing & trade.
| Date | 05.05.2025 - 09.05.2026 |
| Location | Christchurch |
| Country | New Zealand |
Information
Ordinary General Meeting Documents
OGM25-01 Agenda for the Ordinary Meeting 2025
OGM25-02 Minutes OGM 2024 Draft
OGM25-03 Activity Report of the ISTA Committees 2024
OGM25-04 Membership Fees Proposal 2026
OGM25-06 ISTA Method Validation Reports
OGM25-07 ISTA Strategy 2025-2028
Seed Symposium
“Seed Quality for Global Food Security and Biodiversity”
Please note, permission from the author must be obtained prior to using the slides or content for any presentations.
| Session 1: New Technology | |
| Seeing the future - harnessing machine learning for advanced seed testing through computer vision | David Rousseau, Université d `Angers, France |
| Seed respiration control as a tool in seed priming | Bert van Duijn, Leiden University and Fytagoras, The Netherlands |
| High-throughput 4D phenotyping from seeds to seedlings using 3D Xray CT to transform seed quality testing, processing and breeding | Johannes Wolff, phenoLytics, Germany |
| Seed identification using machine deep learning in comparison of RGB and multi-spectrum imaging systems | Ruojing Wang, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada |
| Adoption of new technologies in other seed determination analyses | Didier Demilly, GEVES-SNES, France |
| Utilizing hyperspectral imaging for the timely identification of wild carrot in hybrid carrot seed production in New Zealand | Dhanesha Nanayakkara, Massey University, New Zealand |
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Session 2: Seed quality, germination, dormancy and environment |
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| How seed moisture varies depending on the environment and the consequences for seed quality and germination | Fiona Hay, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Chlorophyll fluorescence, oxygen consumption rates and germination of green soybean seeds produced under heat-drought stress conditions | Mailen Ariela Martinez, National Institute of Agricultural technology, Argentina |
| Turnip germination study for climate adaptation led to discover two types of seed dormancy in Brassica rapa | Marie-Hélène Wagner, GEVES – SNES, France |
| Population restoration of the endangered Cytisus aeolicus Guss. in the island of Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) | Sergio Pasquini, National Center Carabinieri Biodiversity, Italy |
| Seed and seed quality: ensuring quality along the journey of seed from production field to farmer's field | Ganesh Kumar, Bayer Crop Science, USA |
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Session 3: Plant health, microorganisms and contaminants |
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| The plant microbiome - From rhizosphere to seeds and applications to improve crop performance | Stéphane Compant, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria |
| Weed seed contamination in imported seed lots entering New Zealand | Jesse M. Rubenstein, Lincoln University, New Zealand |
| Seed vigour and heat stress: could a bioinoculant offer a mitigation strategy? | Zivana King, Lincoln University, New Zealand |
| When regulation rules! Extension of the ISTA method 7-007 for detecting five different fungi on flax seeds | Isabelle Sérandat, GEVES – SNES, France |
| Impact of bag type on Epichloe endophyte survival and perennial ryegrass seed quality in three different storage environments | Aung Thant, Lincoln University, New Zealand |
| Implementation of sustainable control strategies against the field bean weevil (Bruchus rufimanus Boh.) to safeguard seed quality | Nina Prinz, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Germany |
Discussion Forum: “New breeding techniques”
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What is gene editing and how to integrate it into government policy and regulation |
Revel Drummond, Scientist, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited |
| Policy development in Asia for new breeding technologies | S. K. Pattanayak, Chief of Staff and Adviser to the Governor, Government of West-Bengal, Kolkata, India |
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Florencia Goberna, Coordinación de Innovación y Biotecnología Subsecretaría de Producción Agropecuaria y Forestal |