b'ASSOCIATION NEWS ISTA Welcomes Two New Honorary Life MembersAndreas WaisISTA Secretary GeneralTWO ISTA MEMBERS WERE AWARDEDAnalytic and Research Institutes). She is fromTriesdorf, on the subjects of seed production, AS HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS OF THEBavaria, Germany and studied agriculturalseed certification and seed testing. In parallel, ASSOCIATION during the 34th ISTA Congress.sciences at the Technical University of Munich- she finished her doctoral thesis on marker-This decoration was richly deserved by both BertaWeihenstephan, majoring in crop science andassisted selection in quality wheat breeding Killermann (Germany) and Steve Jones (Canada)plant breeding. using biochemical markers, and was awarded for their extraordinary contributions to thea doctoral degree (Dr agr.) by the Justus Liebig Association over recent decades. Berta and SteveShe worked at the Bavarian Plant BreedingUniversity in Giessen.join our other Honorary Life Members: NorbertAssociation, dealing with plant tissue cultures Leist, Ronald Don, Alison Powell, Grethe Tarp,and protein electrophoresis. She then movedBerta started her ISTA activities in 2004, when Jol Lchapp and Rita Zecchinelli. to the Bavarian State Research Center forshe became a member of the Variety Committee; Agriculture where she took on the leadership ofin 2007 she was appointed Chair of this Berta Killermann both the ISTA Seed Testing Station in FreisingCommittee. At the ISTA Congress in 2013, she Berta has been Chair of the German Seed Testingand the working group on seed research. Atwas elected to the ISTA Executive Committee for Laboratories group since 2011, organised underthe same time, she became a lecturer at thethe first time, but still remained a member of the VDLUFA (the Association of German AgriculturalUniversity for Applied Science in Weihenstephan- Variety Committee.SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL OCTOBER 2025 23'