Presenting and discussing basic principles of quality management and it focuses on the needs of seed testing laboratories that wish to comply with the ISTA Accreditation Standard and prepare for attaining and maintaining ISTA Accreditation.
Sampling principles, testing plan design, assessment of GMO content, SeedCalc, Uncertainty. Theory of PCR methodologies; testing through-put and turnaround time, challenges specific to GMO testing. Hands-on practice of samples processing; Qualitative and qPCR testing an...
Online 10:00 AM Central - Brookings, SD, United States
Review of four corn warm germination methods illustrating normal and abnormal seedling appearances - Cold vigor test methods (tray and saturated) and the stresses imposed by each test and their relationship to field performance - The silent killer - field population
Official Seed Testing Station, NIAB, Huntingdon Road - Cambridge,, United Kingdom
Includes comprehensive training in both the theory and practice of sampling techniques. Included in the syllabus will be a background to seed certification procedures and detailed guidance on the official requirements for labelling, bag sealing and other duties of licen...
Online, 10:00 - 11:00 Central US time - Brookings, SD, United States
ISTA Sampling, ISTA Certificates and Seed Health - Are your seed lots held up at the border? Knowing and understanding the regulations helps to expedite your seeds to other countries throughout the world.
Online, 10:00 - 11:00 Central US time - Brookings, SD, United States
A diagnostic approach with laboratory tests is considered the best practice approach to identify factors affecting seed quality. This webinar will discuss the common tests ordered on the fall production of sorghum, millet, and rice.
Online, 10:00 - 11:00 Central US time - Brookings, SD, United States
This webinar will discuss the common tests ordered on cotton and large seed vegetables. Photographs will show the symptoms and signs of seed coat mechanical damage, field and storage fungi, and seedling abnormalities/vigor
Viability of native seed is affected by collection and storage methods. Information on purity, germination and TZ testing methods will be presented along with a review morphology of dicot and monocotyledon natives and checking for seed fill prior to harvest.
University of Agriculture, Department of Crop Physiology - Faisalabad, Pakistan
Two days course on “Seed Physiology, Production and Management” followed by a one day workshop on “Seed Testing through ISTA standards” on September 29. Queries and registration: DR. Irfan Afzal, seedphysiology11@gmail.com
University of Saskatchewan, CFIA's Seed Testing Laboratory, 301-421, Downey Road - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
This workshop aims at presenting and discussing the principles of the ISTA analytical Purity test, Pure Seed Definitions, the Other Seed Determination test, seed identification, results calculations and reporting plus aspects of quality management linked to analytical p...
The motto of the meeting is Promoting the seed business in the Americas and its principal focus of the congress will be "seed treatment". Biotechnology and phytosanitary aspects will be additional components of the agenda.
SGS will cover five processes used to determine soybean cultivars: hilum check and seed characteristics, seed coat peroxidase reaction. hypocotyl color seedling growout test, electrophoresis, event ID using PCR/DNA based methods
This webinar will discuss the common tests ordered on fall soybean production and also show photographs of symptoms/signs including seed coat mechanical damage, field and storage fungi and seedling abnormalities/vigor.
We will discuss: slight infection-seed coat, severe infection–embryo infection, how seed treatments can help, suggested test methods for evaluating seed quality