Forest Tree and Shrub Seed Committee
Aim:
- To ensure the quality, reliability and international standards of tree and shrub seed testing worldwide.
- To generate information that will contribute to a revision of current methods and to the introduction of new methods and species that are subject to international trade into the ISTA International Rules for Seed Testing.
- To develop procedures for proficiency testing of forest tree and shrub seeds in order to have at least one Proficiency Test round in each three-year period of the ISTA Accreditation Programme.
- To organise workshops and meetings dealing exclusively with methods for quality evaluation of tree and shrub seeds.
- To revise any publication related to forest and shrub seeds in the ISTA documents.
Currently, FTS Committee members are from South and North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. The Committee would warmly welcome seed analysts and scientists from under represented regions (Africa, Asia and Oceania). There are many tree and shrub species from the southern hemisphere, especially the tropics, for which methods are needed in the evaluation of seed quality, seed storage, breaking dormancy and optimizing germination.
The FTS Committee cooperates with other ISTA Technical Committees (especially with Germination, Statistics and Rules committee) to share technical knowledge and ensure uniformity of methods.
Contact the FTS Committee with your suggestions regarding the introduction into the ISTA Rules of both new species and new methods, or other proposals like to host a workshop or develop special projects using woody seed species.
Documents
| Working Programme | Activity Reports | Other Documents |
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Activity Report 2024 |
Index to Scientific Names of Tropical Tree Species with Venacular Names |