GEVES at the ISTA Congress in Christchurch (New Zealand) from May 5 to 9, 2025

This year’s program included a 2-day symposium on “Seed Quality for Global Food Security and Biodiversity”, 2 days dedicated to technical committee activities reports, and a day of general assembly.

153 people from 32 countries/economies braved the distance to attend all or part of these days, including several GEVES members from various ISTA committees.

GEVES presented three oral papers and three posters, one of which won an award. The activity reports of the Sampling, Proficiency Testing and Vigor committees were presented by the GEVES chair or vice-chair of these committees.

At the General Meeting, all the proposed amendments to the ISTA Rules available on the ISTA website were adopted. 

The ISTA constitution introduced a new category of ISTA member: “Member organisation”.

The Executive Committee was renewed, with Ernest Allen (USA) as new Chairman and Sergio Pasquini (Italy) as new Vice-Chairman.  Didier Demilly of GEVES was elected to this committee for the next 3 years. The Executive Committee will be responsible for ISTA’s new strategy over the next 3 years, in continuity with the current one. 

Finally, the general meetings and congresses for the coming years were announced: the ISTA general meeting in 2027 will be held in Angers!