Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › SEEDS AND PLANTING STOCK CERTIFICATION › Chapter 16-301 - General seed regulations › Part 4 - QUARANTINES › Crucifer Seed Quarantine › Section 16-301-495 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Definitions for some terms in WAC
						16-301-490 through
						16-301-580 can be found in chapter
						15.49 RCW and chapter 16-301 WAC. In addition, the following definitions apply
						to these sections and take precedence over conflicting definitions found
						elsewhere:
"Appropriate pathological testing methods"
includes seed testing methods approved for the specific target pathogens
						(
Phoma lingam
and
Xanthomonas campestris pv.
						camp-estris
for black leg and black rot, respectively) by the United
						States National Seed Health System or the International Seed Health Initiative
						(ISHI-Veg) of the International Seed Federation.
"Approved treatment methods"
includes hot
						water, hot chlorine or any other method that can eliminate the presence of
						regulated pathogens.
"Crucifer"
means all plants in the family
						Brassicaceae (also known as Cruciferae) and specifically includes all
Bras-sica
species,
Raphanus sativus
- Radish,
Sinapis alba
and other mustards.
"Crucifer production"
means any planting of
						crucifer seed or seedlings for the purpose of producing seed, oil, commercial
						vegetables or cover crops.
"Crucifer seed"
includes any part of a plant
						capable of propagation including, but not necessarily limited to, seeds, roots,
						and transplants.
"Crucifer weed"
means any crucifer plant
						that appears unintentionally in a different crucifer crop or crop growing area,
						as in the case of volunteers or after planting seed contaminated with other
						crucifer species.
"Department"
means the Washington state
						department of agriculture (WSDA).
"Director"
means the director of the
						Washington state department of agriculture or the director's designee.
"Dormant seed"
means viable true seed that
						displays a delay in or lack of germination when provided favorable germination
						conditions for the type of seed in question.
"Owner"
means the person having legal
						ownership, possession or control over a regulated article covered by this
						chapter including, but not limited to, the owner, shipper, consignee, grower,
						seed dealer, landowner or their agent.
"Person"
means any individual, partnership,
						association, corporation, or organized group of persons whether or not
						incorporated.
"Phytosanitary inspection program"
means the
						seed field inspection program administered by the seed program of the
						department under the authority in
						RCW
						15.49.370 and WAC
						16-301-240.
"Regulated area"
means those geographic
						areas that are protected from regulated diseases by the provisions of this
						quarantine.
"Regulated article"
means, with the
						exception of the exemptions listed in WAC
						16-301-525(1),
						all crucifer seed; seedlings; roots; transplants intended for seed production,
						oil production, commercial vegetable production or cover crop use; and crop
						residue remaining from the harvest of infected crucifer plants.
"Seed lot"
means a designated quantity of
						seed that is uniquely identified by a lot number.
"Seed program"
means the Washington state
						department of agriculture seed program.
"Trial ground"
means a specific parcel of
						land approved by the director through the phytosanitary inspection program for
						experimental or limited production or increase of crucifer seed and for
						planting seed lots whose quantity of seed is insufficient to allow for
						pathological testing.
"True seed"
means a mature fertilized ovule
						consisting of an embryo, with or without an external food reserve enclosed by a
						seed coat.
"Volunteer"
means a crucifer plant that
						germinates in a crop year subsequent to the crop year it was
						planted.
Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.49,
						  17.24, and
						  34.05 RCW. 06-01-111, §
						  16-301-495, filed 12/21/05, effective
						  1/21/06.