ISTA@100

Presentations

• July 01: ISTA Seminar Seed quality assurance a critical component of food and nutritional security

  Maintaining UK biosecurity by intercepting pathogens in trade - Victoria Barton
  UK seed trade from an industry point of view - Rose Riby
  Seed longevity and genetic variation in crop GenBank, emphasis on orthodox seeds - Manuela Nagel
  Seed storage, with emphasis on relative effects temperature, moisture and oxygen - Stevwn P.C. Groot
  Cryopreservation, emphasis on long-term security of crop germplasm and recalcitrant seeds - Jayanthi Nadarajan
  The importance of assuring seed germination quality from the laboratory into the marketplace and to the grower - David M. Johnston
  The importance of having competent personnel for germination tests - Augusto Martinelli
  Quality of forest seeds and food and nutritional security - Elisa Vieira
  Mass sequencing: a useful tool for the control of plant diseases - Jaime Cubero
  Future for high throughput sequencing in seed health testing - Ruud Barnhoorn
  Validation of a high throughput sequencing test within an iso17025 accredited plant health laboratory - Marcel Westenberg
  From seed company to supermarket: the benefits of variety traceability - Lorella Andreani & Chiara Delogu
  Proficiency Testing Program for Variety Verification at ISTA - Marie-Claude Gagnon

• July 02: ISTA Technical Committees Open Meetings

  Rules Committee - Ernest Allen & Sue Alvarez
  Bulking and Sampling Committee
  Seed Storage Committee - Jayanthi Nadarajan
  Flower Seed Testing Committee - Sarah Dammen
  Seed Science Advisory Group - Alison A. Powell
  Seed Science and Technology - Fiona R. Hay
  GMO Committee - Enrico Noli & René Mathis
  Advanced Technologies Committee - Bert van Duijn & Ganesh Kumar
  Germination Committee - Gilian Musgrove

  • Germination Committee: Study on Influence of Substrate Water Level for Germination of Spinacia oleracea - Takayuki Okuda
  • Germination Committee: Introduction of a new pre treatment for Beta vulgaris seeds - Lesly González Galaz
  • Germination Committee: Establishing Evaluation Criteria for Secondary Roots for Zea mays - Melissa Phillips
  • Germination Committee: Dormancy breaking methods for sunflower seeds - Audrey Dupont & Sylvie Ducournau

  Nomenclature Committee - Diogo Tobolski
  Seed Health Committee - Ruud Barnhoorn
  Statistics Committee - Jean-Louis Laffont & Kirk Remund
  Wild Species Committee - Gil Waibel
  Why become ISTA Accredited? - Steve Jones

• July 03: ISTA Technical Committees Open Meetings

  Proficiency Test Committee - Didier Demilly & Branislava Opra
  Tetrazolium Committee - Sergio Pasquini
  Moisture Committee - Axel Goeritz
  Variety Committee
  Purity Committee - Ruojing Wang
  Forest Tree and Shurb Seed Committee Part I - Elisa Vieira
  For​​​​​​est Tree and Shurb Seed Committee Part II
  WG on Practical Guidelines for Image Analysis - Ruojing Wang & Bert van Duijn
  Vigour Committee - Alison A. Powell
  
  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 & Jean-Louis Laffont
• July 04: ISTA Ordinary General Meeting Presentation

  ISTA Ordinary General Meeting Presentation

• July 05: ISTA - ISF Forum Quality seed production for resilient and sustainable agriculture

  ISTA Historical Progress and Vision for the Future - Kashavulu Kunusoth
  Quality seed production for resilient and sustainable agriculture - Marco van Leeuwen
  Quality seeds an imperative for food security and nutrition - Chikelu Mba
  Seeds as vectors of agrobiodiversity and environmental sustainability - Hugh W. Pritchard