🙌 Big thanks to everyone who joined the latest @ISTAseedtesting webinar! 🌍212 participants tuned in - a fantastic 47% attendance rate! 📹Missed it? Catch the full recording here: piped.video/nMnHwf7ajxQ?si=87Om… 🧡Special thanks to our wonderful panellists from the Statistics Committee! #seedquality #seedtesting #ISTAwebinar

🌾 What happens when weed seeds are captured instead of spread across the field? 🔬 At Narromine in Australia, grower Scott Vincent has used chaff lining since 2019 as part of a broader strategy to manage annual ryegrass and herbicide resistance. 🚜 During harvest, a chute directs chaff containing weed seeds into narrow rows instead of spreading it across the paddock. The concentrated chaff can then break down, be grazed by livestock or, where necessary, be targeted with herbicide or burning. 🌱 Controlling the movement and fate of seeds can help interrupt the next generation of weeds. @ISTAseedtesting learns more: groundcover.grdc.com.au/weed… #seedquality #seedtesting

🌱 Could genome editing help develop crops better adapted to drought? 🔬 @ETH_en plant-breeding professor @studerbr discusses how CRISPR-Cas can make targeted changes to plant genomes and potentially accelerate the development of crops adapted to changing environmental conditions. 💧 He highlights drought-tolerant crops such as buckwheat and millet as examples where genome editing could potentially support crop improvement. @ISTAseedtesting reads more: ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/e… #seedquality #seedtesting