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The European Commission has launched a new Plant website, containing information on:
GMOs.
Pesticides.
Plant health - bio-safety.
Plant property rights.
Seed and propagation material.
New EU Plant Website
Food Safety > Plants - June 2012
Key crops head to Arctic 'Doomsday vault'
BBC News - February 2014
More than 20,000 crops from more than 100 nations have arrived at a "Doomsday vault" in the Arctic Circle.
The latest delivery coincides with the sixth anniversary of the frozen depository in Svalbard, which now houses more than 800,000 samples. The shipment includes the first offering from Japan, where collections were threatened by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
The facility is designed to withstand all natural and human disasters.
Seed Testing International
ISTA News Bulletin No.146 - Autumn 2013
Feature Article:
Taking seed images on a budget
Germany 1945: the start of the spread of tetrazolium testing
Association News:
The 30th ISTA Congress 2013
Report from the ISTA Seed Symposium 2013
Discussion forum: use and international standardization of DNA technologies
Seed Testing International
ISTA News Bulletin No.147 - April 2014
Feature Articles:
Quality standards for supporting advanced technologies in Other Seed Determination
Chlorophyll fluorescence as an indicator of seed quality
Introduction of new methods: spectral imaging
Association News:
7th ISTA Seed Health Symposium, Edinburgh, UK
ISTA Annual Meeting 2014, Edinburgh, UK
Combined agency for animal and plant health
.GOV.UK - August 2014
A combined agency will start work this autumn to ensure government is better equipped to prevent the spread of animal and plant diseases.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency will begin on 1 October 2014 to better equip the government to prevent the spread of animal and plant diseases, and to respond to emergencies.
Earlier this year it was announced that a combined agency would be created, with four functions of Fera (Bee inspectorate, the Plants Health and Seeds Inspectorate, the Plant Variety and Seeds Group and the GM Inspectorate) joining with AHVLA.
Seed Testing International
ISTA News Bulletin No.148 - October 2014
Feature Article:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn: dissertation, research work and seed testing
Association News:
7th ISTA Seed Health Symposium Edinburgh, UK
Report from the ISTA Annual Meeting 2014, Edinburgh, UK
ISTA Sampling Seminar 2014
ISTA Annual Meeting 2015, Montevideo, Uruguay