Seed Symposium
This is to draw your attention to the upcoming Seed Symposium during the ISTA Congress 2010 in Cologne, Germany. The oral and poster presentations from international seed scientists will give you an excellent opportunity to update your knowledge and understanding of seed science and its technical applications. A major focus will be on all aspects related to seed testing.
ISTA is lucky to have attracted five internationally leading seed scientists to introduce the five sessions with key note speeches. They will also chair the sessions and help you to address your questions and sharpen your understanding of seeds. Regular breaks will provide time to discuss with the authors individually.
Our Seed Symposium Convenor is once more Alison A. Powell. She is well known in the seed science world for her excellent scientific contributions. Her professional management of the symposium and guidance to contributors was highly appreciated by the contributors and participants of the last two ISTA Congresses.
The three best oral and poster presentations will be identified by an Award Committee and presented during the congress dinner. Besides the presentations you can meet your colleagues, good old friends and the new generation of seed scientist. ISTA and the hosting German Ministries would be very glad to welcome you as a participant or even as an author of a paper at its Seed Symposium 2010. Further information for authors of papers, titles of the sessions and the key note speeches can be found in the links below. If you have additional questions, please contact the ISTA Secretariat.
Overview of the Sessions:
- Session 1: Technologies for improved seed supply
Chair and lead speaker: PK Agrawal, India. - Session 2: Aspects of purity: genetic, technical and physical
Chair and lead speaker: E Noli, Italy - Session 3: Basic approaches to physiological processes in seeds (ISSS collaborative session)
Chair and lead speaker: G Leubner, Germany. - Session 4: Approaches to the evaluation and improvement of germination
Chair and lead speaker: J Léchappé, France. - Session 5: Assessment and improvement of seed performance in practice
Chair and lead speaker: S Matthews, United Kingdom.
Download:
Programm ot the Seed Symposium ( 32 KB) 
Deadlines
The timetable for submission and acceptance of papers is as follows:
- 15 July 2009: Deadline for submission of papers. Paper reviewed by the Scientific Programme Advisory Committee.
- 17 September 2009: Authors of papers considered for oral presentation contacted for further information on experimental results, additional to the abstract.
- 1 November 2009: Authors informed whether papers have been accepted for oral or poster presentation.
- 1 March 2010: Deadline for payment of registration fee for authors of accepted oral papers. If the presenter of an oral paper has not registered, the paper will be replaced in the programme. Deadline of acceptance of an invitation to present an offered oral paper as a poster.
- 2 April 2010: Deadline for payment of registration fee for authors of accepted poster papers. If non of the author posters has registered by this time, it will not be possible to present the poster and the abstract will not be published.
