Davis, California, USA and Novi Sad, Serbia
September 29, 2016
Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Novi Sad (IFVCNS) in collaboration with UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy developed and delivered a customized course to address the advancements in plant breeding, experimental design and analysis.
Thirty plant breeders and scientists from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Holland, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Romania, South Africa, Serbia and Switzerland attended the course in Novi Sad, Serbia, September 27-29, 2016.
The course instructions was provided by highly respected plant breeders and scientists from the region, including:
- Drs. Dragana Miladinovic, Goran Bekavac, Jegor Miladinovic, Sinisa Jocic, Svetlana Balasevic-Tubic (IFVCNS, Serbia),
- Domagoj Simic (Agricultural Institute Osijek, Croatia),
- Yalcin Kaya (Trakya University Havsa Myo, Edirne, Turkey),
- Mirjana Jankulovska (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, Skopje, Macedonia).
Rale Gjuric represented UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy.
Established in 1938, The Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops is one of the leading organizations in the region in basic and applied research primarily centered on the development of field and vegetable crop cultivars. Almost 500 cultivars have been released and registered outside Serbia, successfully competing in the seed markets of 26 countries, including Argentina, EU countries, Ukraine, Russia, China and India.
The UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy is a premium professional certificate program offered USA, Europe, Asia and Africa. To date, more than two hundred (200) private industry breeders have attended the UC Davis PBA certificate program, making it the most significant program of its kind. In addition to PBA, UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center offers a variety of short courses on technical and management topics related to plant breeding.
UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy starts its sixth class in September of 2016 and its fifth European class in October of 2017.
For more information on the UC Davis European Plant Breeding Academy or the Plant Breeding Academy in the United States visit http://pba.ucdavis.edu.
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