Welcome to the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy

The University of California, Davis PLANT BREEDING ACADEMY is a premium professional development program designed to develop and enhance the skills of industry personnel around the world to enable them to become independent plant breeders or to contribute to larger breeding programs.

PBA E-SERIES
Statistics & Experimental Design
Hybrid Breeding Strategies
Spring 2021
Registration is open!
Based upon a seed industry-wide survey assessing continuous educational needs during the pandemic, we are launching a set of on-line short courses.

Applications are now being accepted!

PBA in DAVIS
Fall 2021
Due to the COVID pandemic, the initiation of PBA VIII has been delayed.
We hope by Fall of 2021, it will be safe to travel and hold in-person trainings.

News and Updates

SBC director Allen Van Deynze discusses the USDA's role in plant breeding and mentorship

LGC, Biosearch Technologies to feature African PBA Class IV graduates

LGC, Biosearch Technologies to feature African PBA Class IV graduates Drs. Inge Gazendam and Santatra Ravelomanantsoa in webinar "Celebrating advances in agrigenomics with SuperSHEroes", which shines the spotlight on three women scientists who are seeding global change in agriculture by championing modern genomics that promote sustainability, efficiency, and optimal breeding workflows. https://lnkd.in/gbRsYen

Allen Van Deynze invited as plenary speaker: 2020 Oxford Nanopore London Calling

Along with Bernice Waweru (BecA/ILRI), SBC Director Allen Van Deynze will be a plenary speaker at the 2020 Oxford Nanopore London Calling event, being held on June 18-19. Over 2500 people have already registered for this exciting event. Presentation Title: The African Orphan Crops Consortium, Alleviating Stunting due to Malnutrition One Crop at a Time. London Calling is a conference dedicated to scientific research using nanopore DNA/RNA sequencing. International speakers across three main tracks will be hosted this year: Human and clinical research, microbiology, and plant genomics. Learn more

Video produced by African Plant Breeding Academy (Class IV)