1876 Friedrich Nobbe published his famous Handbook of Seed Science,
and the Motto of the Meeting held in Hamburg that year was
“uniformity in seed testing”, later becoming the ISTA logo
1924 26 countries participated in the meeting held in Cambridge,
and the International Seed Testing Association was founded
1931 At the request of FIS (ISF), ISTA adopted the first ‘International
Rules for Seed Testing’, as well as establishing the ISTA Certificates
Scheme
1950 The ISTA Congress was held in Washington DC, the first outside
of Europe, and demonstrated that, after 13 years of interruption
by World War II, ISTA was indispensable to seed business