Upcoming Events
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6.6.2024 - 6.6.2024
ISTA Rules Proposals for 2025 Discussion Session
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3pm - 5pm CEST
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19.6.2024 - 22.6.2024
ISTA Workshop on Imaging in Seed Quality Assurance
ISTA Advanced Technologies Committee and Telangana State Seed & Organic Certification Authority, is looking forward to hosting you at the ISTA Workshop on Imaging in Seed Quality Assurance, to be held in Hyderabad, India in June 2024Read more -
26.6.2024 - 28.6.2024
ISTA Workshop on Purity Analysis and Seed Identification
ISTA Purity Technical Committee and Official Seed Testing Station-National Institutes of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), is looking forward to hosting you at the ISTA Workshop on Purity Analysis and Seed Identification, to be held in Cambridge, United Kingdom in June 2024.Read more
News
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03.07.2023
This newly released joint ISTA and FAO Handbook provides comprehensive guidelines for the setting up and managing of seed testing laboratories, including those that cater to small- and medium-scale seed enterprises and farmers’ cooperatives, which operate in low input production systems.
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06.02.2024
ISTA Referrence Pest List (ISTA-RPL) new version is released! Version 11.0 includes 3 species of the Fabaceae (lentil, lupin) and Solanaceae (potato) families.
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08.04.2024
The most recent edition of Seed Testing International (STI), Issue 167, has been released! Access the online flipbook by clicking on the provided link.
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Publications
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The International Rules for Seed Testing are ISTA primary tool to promote uniformity in the seed testing industry. Featuring 19 sections, the International Rules for Seed Testing have definitions and standardised methods to be used in sampling, testing seed lot quality and reporting results for international trade. The ISTA Rules are voted, amended and approved annually at the Ordinary General Meeting after considering the Technical Committees recommendations.
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Seed Science and Technology (SST) is an international journal, featuring original papers and articles on seed quality and physiology related to seed production, harvest, processing, sampling, storage, genetic conservation, habitat regeneration, distribution and testing. A journal that meets the needs of researchers, advisers and all those involved in the improvement and technical control of seed quality.
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Seed Testing International (STI) is ISTA News Bulletin, distributed to over 1700 subscribers worldwide. STI includes reports from ISTA President, Technical Committees, and Secretariat. It also includes articles, addressing various aspects, concerning seed testing in general.
This is the reason why STI is read by parties, interested in seeds, including ISTA Members and their laboratory personnel in more than 70 countries/distinct economies.
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