African Centre for Crop Improvement

Acronym: 
ACCI

We train students in plant breeding, providing them with a spectrum of hard science tools, and soft skills so that they can work independently in an African context. Students work mainly on African food crops including underexploited crops such as Bambara groundnut, tef and finger millet. The overall strategy is to integrate a conventional breeding approach with biotechnology tools, such as genomic diversity studies, and mutation breeding.

 

Year of establishment: 
2001
Telephone: 
+27-33-2606288
Full address: 
Room 121 Rabie Saunders Building, Agriculture Campus. Pietermaritzburg 3201
Country: 
South Africa