Seed Quality Control

AI-Powered Seed Quality Control A practical guide to imaging and automation in vegetable seed - from production field to certificate

Written for vegetable seed company operations and QC leads who outsource their testing.

The vendors will tell you what their systems can measure. This guide tells you which of those numbers you are allowed to use.

Inside:

• The certificate question, answered per method. A "can it go on the certificate?" verdict in every technical chapter, and a one-page matrix in the appendices. Certifiable, reportable outside the Rules, or internal only - for every technology in the book.
• Orange versus Blue. The ISTA certificate distinction that decides whether your document describes your lot or a bag that arrived in the post - and what it takes to change which one you receive.
• Two currencies on every cost table. What a test costs in euros and in grams of hybrid seed destroyed. No laboratory or vendor presents the second number, and for a vegetable house it is often the binding one.
• The best published evidence, including the failures. Seven vegetable crops, 47 commercial lots, twelve seed companies - and a system that met its own industry accuracy bar 51% of the time. That is the state of the art, and it is in here with its numbers.
• Ten questions for your laboratory and ten for your equipment vendor, plus a cost-per-lot worksheet and the ten red flags in an accuracy claim.
• Where the evidence stops. Six things nobody has published - stated plainly, because knowing where the floor gives way is worth more than a confident number.

Sourced from peer-reviewed literature and publications of ISTA, ISF/ISHI-Veg, the European institutions, Naktuinbouw, SASA, USDA-APHIS and university extension. Vendor material is used only where nothing else exists, and is labelled where it appears. Prices are quoted in the currency the source published them in and never converted.