Davis, California, USA
February 24, 2014

The UC Davis Plant Breeding AcademySM (PBA) is a professional certificate program offered since 2006 with classes in the United States, Europe and Asia. 133 industry breeders, with a wide variety of backgrounds, have been trained by the PBA.

Here are some interesting facts about the PBA:

Participation by last degree completed:

• BSc – 82
• MSc – 31
• PhD – 20

Participation by position:
 

• Breeders responsible for one or more crops – 63
• Assistant/associate breeders – 41
• Breeding support – 29

Participation by crop type:

Vegetable and flowers – 70,
Field crops – 48
Other crops or support – 15

More than 70% of participation is from companies that have repeatedly sent candidates to PBA.

List of participating companies in the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy (US, Europe and Asia)

• Abbott and Cobb Inc.,
• Agricultural Institute Osjek,
• Alfaseed,
• American Takii Inc,
• Ball Horticultural Company,
• Bayer CropScience,
• Beijing Vegetable Research Center,
• Betaseed Inc,
• Boreal Plant Breeding Ltd,
• Chia Tai Co. Ltd,
• Clover Seed Company Ltd,
• Crookham Co,
• Dairyland Seed Co,
• Danko Breeding Company,
• Degao Vegetable Seed And Seedling Research Institute,
• Deutsche Saatveredelung AG,
• Dialsoft Beheer B.V.,
• Dieckmann Seeds,
• DLF-Trifolium,
• Doctor Seeds,
• Dow AgroSciences,
• Driscolls,
• DuPont Pioneer
• East West Seed Company Inc,
• Green Seeds Inc,
• HM.Clause
• HortResearch,
• HSR Seeds Pty Ltd,
• Hy Tech Production Ltd,
• INIA Chile,
• Johnny's Selected Seeds,
• K&B Development Llc,
• Kartoffelzucht Boehm,
• Known-You Seed Co,
• KWS,
• Lundberg Family Farms,
• Magnus Kahl Seeds,
• Malaysian Palm Oil Board,
• Maraldi Sementi,
• MayAgro,
• MillerCoors,
• Monsanto,
• National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables China,
• Nidera S.A.,
• Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht Hans‐Georg Lembke KG,
• Nuseed,
• Pannar Seed Inc.,
• Paragon Seed Inc,
• Plant Sciences Inc,
• Progeny Advanced Genetics,
• Pybas Seed Co. Inc,
• Rice Experiment Station,
• Saaten-Union Recherche,
• Saatzucht Gleisdorf,
• Sakata Seed America,
• Semillas Fitó, Syngenta,
• Synthetic Genomics Inc,
• Technisem,
• Tomato Solutions,
• University of Goettingen,
• University of Groningen,
• Urumchi Yunong Seed Co. Ltd.
• Vilmorin.

Class V of the PBA at UC Davis will start in September 2014 and it is now open for registration here.

For more information about the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy contact Joy Patterson at jpatterson@ucdavis.edu or visit pba.ucdavis.edu.
 

Website: http://pba.ucdavis.edu/

Published: February 24, 2014