ISTA Congress 2025
The 34rd ISTA Congress was held in Christchurch, New Zealand from May 05 - 09, 2025.
| OGM Approved Documents | Ordinary General Meeting | Technical Committees Reports | Seed Symposium "Seed Quality for Global Food Security and Biodiveristy" |
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OGM25-01 Agenda for the Ordinary Meeting 2025 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 |
Ordinary General Meeting Presentation |
Advanced Technologies Committee Bulking and Sampling Committee Editorial Board of Seed Science and Technology |
Seed Symposium Abstract Book |
Seed Symposium “Seed Quality for Global Food Security and Biodiversity”
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| 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 |
| Session 2: Seed quality, germination, dormancy and environment | |
| 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 |
| Session 3: Plant health, microorganisms and contaminants | |
| 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" | |
| 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 |
| Argentina new breeding techniques normative approach |
Florencia Goberna, Coordinación de Innovación y Biotecnología |
