The ISTA Membership consists of over 250 personal members, over 30 associate members and almost 200 member laboratories,
of which over 100 laboratories are ISTA Accredited. The membership is a collaboration of seed scientists and seed
analysts from universities, research centres and governmental, private and company seed testing laboratories around the
world. ISTA values and promotes the diversity of membership, this being the basis for its independence from economic and
political influence.