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Students from the African Plant Breeding Academy in 2013
Healthy and Prosperous Africa through Nutritious Local African Crops and Trees
With the endorsement of the African Union, the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) has the greater integration of orphan crops into African food systems at its heart. To support this, its goal is to sequence, assemble and annotate the genomes of 101 traditional African food crops, to facilitate their genetic improvement. Once genomes have been sequenced, AOCC explores genetic diversity in depth in a ‘germplasm’ panel of each crop.
Pillars of AOCC
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Latest Publications
Enhancing African orphan crops with genomics
Jamnadass R, Mumm RH, Hale I, Hendre P, Muchugi A, Dawson IK, Powell W, Graudal L, Yana-Shapiro H, Simons AJ, Deynze AV (2020) Enhancing African orphan crops with genomics. Nature Genetics 52: 356–360
Draft Genomes of Two Artocarpus Plants, Jackfruit (A. heterophyllus) and Breadfruit (A. altilis)
Sahu SK, Liu M, Yssel A, Kariba R, Muthemba S, Jiang S, Song B, Hendre PS, Muchugi A, Jamnadass R, Kao SM, Featherston J, Zerega NJC, Xu X, Yang H, Deynze AV, Peer YV, Liu X, Liu H (2020) Draft genomes of two Artocarpus plants, jackfruit (A. heterophyllus) and breadfruit (A. altilis). Genes, 11: 27