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MCIA offers source-identified certification for indigenous
or non-indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants,
including grasses, forbs and wildflowers. These services assure
the proper identity and purity of native plants that are needed
to revegetate, restore, improve or stabilize natural-plant
communities.
This type of certification is available for seeds and other
propagating materials of germplasm types that have not been
released as varieties. The standards are designed to certify
the genus, species and ecotype of the source plants; they
are not used for genetic certification.
The program provides:
- Site identification
- a species site inspection identifies the genus, species
and exact location of the original collection. Source
identified material can come from natural stands, seed
production areas or seed fields where no selection or
selective breeding of the parent population has been
made.
- Seed sampling and testing
- seed samples are sent to an MSIA-approved laboratory,
where they are tested for purity and content of noxious
weed seeds.
Three different levels or seed classes are possible based
on the amount of inentional selection that has taken place:
- Source identified
- material is marked with a yellow tag, comprised of
the least selected germplasm and considered to have
a genetically diverse origin
- Selected
- material is marked with a green tag and is the progeny
of phenotypically selected plants, traits or parentage
that has promise, but no proof of inheritance
- Tested
- material is marked with a blue tag ad is the progeny
of plants whose parentage has been tested and proven
to possess distinctive traits.
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For additional information or to contact a representative
of the MCIA, contact:
Missouri Crop Improvement Association
Richard Arnett,
Executive Director
3211 Lemone Industrial Blvd.
Columbia, MO 65201
(573) 449-0586
FAX (573) 874-3193 MOSEED@AOL.com
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