R & D
The World Vegetable Center strives to find an effective and appropriate balance between research to produce technologies, and development to ensure impact.
Our main research and development groups:
- biotechnology/molecular breeding
- entomology
- genetic resources and genebank management
- nutrition
- plant breeding
- plant pathology
- postharvest
- socioeconomics
- technology dissemination
Supported by:
- biometrics
- communication and library services
- grants and partnership development
- information technology
- finance
- human resources
FLAGSHIPS
The Center’s work is built around three global flagships that address the entire vegetable value chain:
and one cross-cutting flagship,
All flagships interact with the WorldVeg Genebank
Innovation clusters
Each flagship is operationalized through two to four innovation clusters: