Annual Meeting 2024

ISTA Annual Meeting presentations

July 01

ISTA Seminar Seed quality assurance a critical component of food and nutritional security

01. Maintaining UK biosecurity by intercepting pathogens in trade

02. UK seed trade from an industry point of view

03. Seed longevity and genetic variation in crop GenBank, emphasis on orthodox seeds

04. Seed storage, with emphasis on relative effects temperature, moisture and oxygen

05. Cryopreservation, emphasis on long-term security of crop germplasm and recalcitrant seeds

06. The importance of assuring seed germination quality from the laboratory into the marketplace and to the grower

07. The importance of having competent personnel for germination tests

08. Quality of forest seeds and food and nutritional security

09. Mass sequencing: a useful tool for the control of plant diseases

10. Future for high throughput sequencing in seed health testing

11. Validation of a high throughput sequencing test within an iso17025 accredited plant health laboratory

12. From seed company to supermarket: the benefits of variety traceability

13. Proficiency Testing Program for Variety Verification at ISTA

July 02

ISTA Technical Committees Open Meetings

Rules Committee

Bulking and Sampling Committee

Seed Storage Committee

Flower Seed Testing Committee

Seed Science Advisory Group

Seed Science and Technology

GMO Committee

Advanced Technologies Committee

Germination Committee

• Germination Committee: Study on Influence of Substrate Water Level for Germination of Spinacia oleracea
• Germination Committee: Introduction of a new pre treatment for Beta vulgaris seeds
• Germination Committee: Establishing Evaluation Criteria for Secondary Roots for Zea mays
• Germination Committee: Dormancy breaking methods for sunflower seeds

Nomenclature Committee

Seed Health Committee

Statistics Committee

Wild Species Committee

Why become ISTA Accredited?

July 03

ISTA Technical Committees Open Meetings
 

Proficiency Test Committee

Tetrazolium Committee

Moisture Committee

Variety Committee

Purity Committee

Forest Tree and Shurb Seed Committee Part I
For​​​​​​est Tree and Shurb Seed Committee Part II

WG on Practical Guidelines for Image Analysis

Vigour Committee

New Technologies in Seed Testing

• Exploring Molecular Tools for Evaluating Seed Quality - Giovanny Lopez
• Developments in Multispectral Imaging and Image Analysis on seeds - Birte Boelt
• An example of using Bayesian statistics: revised OSD heterogeneity testing under certain conditions - Kirk Remund and Jean-Louis Laffont

July 04

ISTA Ordinary General Meeting Presentation 

July 05

ISTA - ISF Forum Quality seed production for resilient and sustainable agriculture

01. ISTA Historical Progress and Vision for the Future

02. Quality seed production for resilient and sustainable agriculture

03. Quality seeds an imperative for food security and nutrition

04. Seeds as vectors of agrobiodiversity and environmental sustainability