Report of ISTA Purity Workshops 2006 Zurich (Switzerland, June 22-23) and Nakuru (Kenya, July 13-14)

摘要

One of the main objectives of the Purity Committee work for the period 2004-2007 is the development of workshops. With this aim, two purity workshops were held earlier this year (2006): the first one at Agroscope in Zurich, Switzerland in June, some days before the ISTA Annual Open Meeting, and the second one at KEPHIS in Nakuru, Kenya in July. The working group on Workshop Develop ment and all the Purity Committee Members have actively participated to the workshop organisation. The different technical subjects handled during the two meetings have been chosen on the basis of the suggestions given by both the members of the Purity Committee and the applicants. By this means, we achieved two main objectives of the workshops: to make progress on the committee working programme and to improve methods and method standardisation, responding to the needs coming from the seed analysis laboratories.