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International Seed Testing Association
International Seed Testing Association
Richtiarkade 18
8304 Wallisellen, CH
+41 44 838 60 00
ista.office@ista.ch
International Seed Testing Association

NIAB

Membership Code GBDL0100
Organisation NIAB
Department Official Seed Testing Station
Address

Barn 1, Park Farm

VIlla Road, Impington

CB24 9NZ Cambridge

Country Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Phone 00441223342428
FAX 00441223277602
E-Mail helen.appleyard@niab.com
Current Scope of Accreditation:

Sampling from the lot (SAM)

  • SAM: Manual lot sampling cereals
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling flower species
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling grasses
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling of coated seeds
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling other agricultural crops
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling pulses
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling small legumes
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling tree and shrub species
  • SAM: Manual lot sampling vegetables, spices, herbs, and medicinal species

Purity and identification of other seeds (PUR/OSD)

  • PUR/OSD: Cereals
  • PUR/OSD: Coated seeds
  • PUR/OSD: Flower species
  • PUR/OSD: Grasses
  • PUR/OSD: Other agricultural crops
  • PUR/OSD: Poa pratensis, Poa trivialis and Dactylis glomerata
  • PUR/OSD: Pulses
  • PUR/OSD: Seed mixture
  • PUR/OSD: Small legumes
  • PUR/OSD: Tree and shrub species
  • PUR/OSD: Vegetables, spices, herbs, and medicinal species

Germination (GER)

  • GER: Cereals
  • GER: Coated seeds
  • GER: Flower species
  • GER: Grasses
  • GER: Other agricultural crops
  • GER: Pulses
  • GER: Seed mixture
  • GER: Small legumes
  • GER: Tree and shrub species
  • GER: Vegetables, spices, herbs, and medicinal species
  • GER: Weighed replicates grasses
  • GER: Weighed replicates tree and shrub species

Viability (VIA)

  • VIA: EE Tree species
  • VIA: TTC Cereals
  • VIA: TTC Coated seeds
  • VIA: TTC Grasses
  • VIA: TTC Other agricultural crops
  • VIA: TTC Seed mixture
  • VIA: TTC Small legumes
  • VIA: TTC Tree and shrub seeds
  • VIA: TTC Vegetables, spices, herbs, and medicinal species

Seed health (SH)

  • SH: 7-004 Leptosphaeria maculans and Plenodomus biglobosus on Brassica spp.
  • SH: 7-005 Ascochyta in Pisum
  • SH: 7-007 Alternaria, Botrytis and Colletotrichum in Linum
  • SH: 7-013a Ustilago in Hordeum, embryo extraction
  • SH: 7-019a Xanthomonas on Brassica

Verification of species and variety (VAR)

  • VAR: Fluorescence of root traces on Festuca spp.
  • VAR: Fluorescence of root traces on Lolium spp.

Moisture content (MOI)

  • MOI: Constant oven method: coarse grinding
  • MOI: Constant oven method: cutting
  • MOI: Constant oven method: fine grinding
  • MOI: Constant oven method: no grinding

Thousand-seed weight (TSW)

  • TSW: Cereals
  • TSW: Coated seeds
  • TSW: Flower seeds
  • TSW: Grasses
  • TSW: Other agricultural crops
  • TSW: Pulses
  • TSW: Seed mixture
  • TSW: Small legumes
  • TSW: Tree and shrub seeds
  • TSW: Vegetables, spices, herbs, and medicinal species

Vigour (VIG)

  • VIG: Conductivity for Cicer arietinum, Pisum sativum, Phaseolus vulgaris, Glycine max, Raphanus sativus
  • VIG: Radicle emergence for Brassica napus, Zea mays, Raphanus sativus, Triticum aestivum subsp.aestivum
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