ISSS-ISTA webinar – Wild Seeds in Focus: Science and Digital Innovation

The next ISSS-ISTA webinar will take place on Thursday May 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM UTC.

The aim of this joint ISTA-ISSS webinar is to showcase key initiatives in wild seed research, highlighting recent advances in seed functional ecology with a particular emphasis on tropical species. The webinar will also present the mandate and key deliverables of ISTA’s Wild Species Committee, along with a live demonstration of a web-based database designed to support wild seed testing protocols.

Speaker: Fernando A. O. Silveira
Title: An overview of seed functional ecology: focusing on accelerating progress in the tropics

Speaker: Ruojing Wang
Title: Introduction of Wild Species Committee (WSC) and its objectives and deliverable

Speaker: Gil Waibel
Title: Introduction and demonstration of the web application of wild seeds testing protocol database

Abstracts are available here: ISSS-ISTA webinars – International Seed Testing Association.

Registration is free and open to all. Please register here: Registration.