University of California, Davis, Seed Biotechnology Center

04/05/2023

Ditto ditto !!

Our educational courses are designed to fit into busy agenda of seed industry professionals!! Continuous development adds to ones career, and organization…

03/30/2023

Plant Breeding Acadamy E-Series: Hybrid Breeding Strategies registrations are filling, be sure to secure your space early!

May 23 & 25, 2023
(2 - half days, ONLINE)
7:00am - 11:30am PDT

For more information please visit: https://sbc.ucdavis.edu/e-series-2-hybrid-breeding-strategies

03/30/2023

*Early Registration ending soon*

Don't miss the upcoming Plant Breeding Academy E-Series: Statistics & Experimental Design online course!

April 11 & 13, 2023
(two half-day classes)
7:00am -11:30am PDT

For more information please visit: https://sbc.ucdavis.edu/e-series-1-statistics-experimental-design

02/22/2023

Plant Breeding Academy E-Series - R-Studio (level 1)
March 21 & 22, 2023
*(early registration ends February 28, 2023)

For more information please visit: https://sbc.ucdavis.edu/e-series-rstudio

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02/06/2023

R & R-Studio Online Level 1, March 21 and 22
Early registration prices are extended until February 28th!
In this podcast styled Video (6min), our Director of Plant Breeding Academy Jovan Djordjevic, and R & R Studio Instructor Jose Luis Rodriguez Gil discuss this new UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy E-Series content, continuous development of seed industry professionals and how R & R-Studio skills contribute towards developing better new and improved varieties

R & R-Studio Online Level 1, March 21 and 22 Early bird prices extended until January 31st!! In this podcast like Video (6min), our Director of Plant Breeding…

02/03/2023

Jovan Djordjevic, director of the University of California, Davis Plant Breeding Academy, shares how plant breeders are “innovators-in-chief” in his column:

With the world population projected to reach 9 billion by mid-century, it is imperative that the seed industry and plant breeders contribute to finding ways to multiply world food production with other stakeholders — while using fewer resources, preserving the environment and producing crops with ...

02/02/2023

UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center partners with world-class institutions to open the African Plant Breeding Academy CRISPR Class. "This program was designed to expand the impact of the 150 plant breeders already trained from National Agricultural Research programs (NARs) with the African Plant Breeding Academy, organized and directed by the UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center," said Allen Van Deynze, the Center director. UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Nairobi, 26 January 2023 – Climate change is making it harder to grow enough nutritious food, but a unique programme is training African scientists in harnessing a cutting-edge breeding tool to adapt agriculture to new threats.

01/17/2023

Climate change threatens the Salad Bowl of the world. Researchers and plant breeders at UC Davis share how they are using new plant breeding methods to save it.

12/20/2022

Happy Holidays & Seasons Greetings from your UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center team!🎄⛄

12/19/2022

African Plant Breeding Academy Session 2 complete! Just finished another 2-week Session 2 (of 3) of the African Plant Breeding Academy Class V at World Agroforestry in Nairobi. Led by director Rita Mumm, instructors Iago Hale, Bruce Walsh, and Allen Van Deynze complemented by guest instructors from CIMMYT and Christine Diepenbrock, 39 students were guided to complex plant breeding strategies, experimental designs, application of genomics, high throughput phenotyping, and breeding for nutrition. This class is generously funded by Mars, Incorporated.

12/09/2022

Registrations for the 2023 Seed Production cohort are NOW OPEN! 🌱

Spaces for this course are limited and early registration is recommended!

This course is designed to enhance participants’ knowledge of the underlying biology of seed production, how to manage seed crops from agronomic, quality control, and genetic integrity standpoints, and how to meet new challenges through seed production research, among many other practical insights.

For more information please visit https://lnkd.in/gzx5HBhE

12/09/2022

Registrations for the 2023 PBA E-Series: R-Studio Level 1 are now open! 📊

Level 1: R for the Plant Breeder – Introduction, set-up, and workflows

This module aims to introduce Plant Breeders and Scientists to the world of R and to guide them through setting up their work environments, tools, and workflows. This course will use the power of RStudio and the plethora of tools in the Tidyverse to guide the student through the whole process from data collection, good practices on data organization, reporting, and everything in between, always with the goals of transparency and reproducibility.
This course is recommended prerequisite for UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy.

For more information please visit https://lnkd.in/gmtnpThA