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International Seed Testing Association
International Seed Testing Association
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International Seed Testing Association

Seed ID References

Electronical Tools

  • ASIS Arable Seed Identification System

    Publication Title: ASIS Arable Seed Identification System
    Author(s): The James Hutton Institute
    Language: English

  • Digital Plant Atlas

    Publication Title: Digital Plant Atlas
    Author(s): Digital Plant Atlas - RUG & DAI
    Language: English

  • PlantSearch

    Publication Title: Botanic garden conservation international
    Author(s): The James Hutton Institute
    Language: English
    Additionals: Photo of seeds

  • Seed ID Workshop, CFAES

    Publication Title: CFAES Seed ID Workshop
    Author(s): Department of Horticulture and Crop Science The Ohio State University
    Language: English

  • Drawings of seeds, Miliza Tischler

    Publication Title: Semina gezeichnet von M.Tischler
    Author(s): Miliza Tischler
    Language: German
    Year of Publication: 2002
    Additionals: Seed drawing with hand written note

  • Federal Noxious Weed Disseminules of the United States, USDA

    Publication Title: Federal Noxious Weed Disseminules of the United States
    Author(s): United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
    Language: English

  • Fruit and seed family ID, USDA

    Publication Title: Fruit and Seed Family ID
    Author(s): United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
    Language: English
    Additionals: Photos and fact sheeds on fruits and seeds

  • Key for seed identification (I.D.SEED®)

    Language: English
    Webhttps://www.geves.fr/tools/i-d-seed/
    Additionals: Needs registration

  • Seed Identification Guide®, ISMA

    Publication Title: Seed Identification Guide®
    Author(s): International Seed Morphology Association (ISMA)
    Language: English
    Additionals: Seed photos including key for determination 

  • Seed images amongst other information

    Language: English
    Webhttps://www.seedimages.com/
    Additionals: Subscription fee

  • Seed images amongst other information

    Language: English
    Webhttps://plantatlas.eu/repository
    Additionals: Links work well, very useful

  • Seed images from ISTA PT s "other seeds"

    Language: English
    Webhttps://www.seedtest.org/en/proficiency-tests/standard-pt-results.html
    Additionals: Photos of the ISTA PT rounds

  • Seeds of cultivated flowers

    Author(s): Larsen A.
    Year of Publication: 1996
    Language: English
    Webhttps://frontrangeseedanalysts.weebly.com/flower-seed-images-frsa-1995.html
    Additionals: Link works well, for flower seeds only

  • Seeds of South Australia

    Language: English
    Webhttps://spapps.environment.sa.gov.au/SeedsOfSA/home.html
    Additionals: Link works well, good resolution seed pictures of 197 species

  • Seeds USID
  • Tropical plants/seeds

    Language: English
    Webhttps://www.tropicalforages.info/text/entities/index.htm
    Additionals: Photos and description of tropical of seeds and plants

  • U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (CBO)
  • Weed seeds USDA

    Language: English
    Webhttps://idtools.org/id/weed-tool/key/index.htm
    Additionals: Photos and keys in general and for grass species

  • Weed Seed Identification

    Author(s): ICAR Directorate of weed research
    Language: English
    Webhttps://dwr.icar.gov.in/WeedSeed_test.aspx
    Additionals: Prescription of characters, photos of seeds, seedlings and plants

  • Key for seed determination

    Publication Title: Seeds Handbook for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry, with a key for the identification of the important agricultural seeds
    Author(s): W. Brouwer, A. Staehlin
    Language: English
    Additionals: Translated for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, Washington D.C. by the Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations

  • e-Floras

    Publication Title: e-Floras
    Year of Publication: 1993
    Language: English
    Additionals: Available also as a book

  • Flower seeds

    Publication Title: Flower seeds
    Author(s): McDonald MB, Kwong F.J.
    Year of Publication: 2005
    Language: English
    Additionals: Available also as a book

  • Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Faboideae

    Publication Title: Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Faboideae (Fabaceae) 
    Author(s): Kirkbride J.H. jr., Gunn C. R., Weitzman A.L.
    Year of Publication: 2003
    Language: English

  • Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Mimosoideae

    Publication Title: Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Mimosoideae (Fabaceae)
    Author(s): R. Gunn
    Year of Publication: 1984
    Language: English

  • Seed Identification of Eight Urochloa Species

    Publication Title: Seed Identification of Eight Urochloa (= Brachiaria) Species (Cultivated or Weed)
    Author(s): Groth D.
    Year of Publication: 2021
    Language: English

  • Seed Illustrations, Photographs of forage seeds and their impurities

    Publication Title: Seed Illustrations, Photographs of forage seeds and their impurities
    Author(s): Hillmann F.H., Henry H.H.
    Year of Publication: 1935
    Language: English

  • Seeds of wild plants in Japan

    Publication Title: Seeds of wild plants in Japan
    Author(s): Shiday Nakayama
    Year of Publication: 1996
    Language: English

  • Seed ID woody plants

    Publication Title: The woody plants seed manual
    Author(s): Bonner F, Karrfalt R.
    Year of Publication: 2008
    Language: English
    Additionals: Also as book available

  • The reference collection of Bredemann and Nieser from Hamburg

    Publication Title: The reference collection of Bredemann and Nieser from Hamburg​​​​​​​
    Author(s): University of Hamburg Collections
    Language: German

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