Partners & Network

Founder members

Endorse AOCC’s recommendations and help raise support and translation at country and international level

African Plant Breeding Academy scholarships for breeding programs and support for AOCC lab personnel.

Role in science, technology and capacity building

Generate reference genome sequence for AOCC species

Technical advice, formulation of strategy and managing African plant breeding academy (AfPBA)

Transcriptome sequencing of 50 AOCC species

Data analysis, genome annotatio

Co-ordination of AOCC activities and re-sequence 100 accessions for AOCC species and provide administrative support to the African Plant Breeding Academy’s (AfPBA) activities.

Data analysis, SNP discovery, SNP database.

Training and capacity building

Data logistics and storage

Role in advocacy, management and technology propagation

Endorse AOCC’s recommendations and help raise support and translation at country and international level.

Endorse AOCC’s recommendations and help raise support and translation at country and international level.

Uses various global platforms to propagate the idea of AOCC, gather popular support and mentors AOCC

Endorse AOCC’s recommendations and help raise support and translation at country and international level

Incorporate AOCC species into its agroforestry delivery vehicles such as portfolio of fruit crops and popularize them at local level

Endorse AOCC’s recommendations and help raise support and translation at country and international level

Resource mobilization

Fund and support resource mobilization efforts.

Nurture network of trained plant breeders to formulate breeding programs and encourage to build proposals along with AOCC

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Host the AOCC Laboratory, staff and infrastructure, and write proposals and generate funds for AOCC

Instrumentation and reagent support

 LGC

Support SNP genotyping through special arrangement

Provide NGS line of instrumentation (Ion Protons and Ion Chefs) and partial support for re-sequencing