APBA JOURNALS

African Journal of Crop Improvement

1. Aims and scope

The African Journal of Crop Improvement (AJCI) is the official journal of the African Plant Breeders Association
(APBA), the largest network of academics and professionals committed to the advancement of genetics and plantbreeding in Africa. AJCI is peer-reviewed and comprehensively covers all aspects of crop improvement disciplines.
The articles submitted to AJCI should be high quality analytical, conceptual, applied and empirical studies that
demonstrate substantial contribution to the broad domain of African agriculture. Regardless of the research context,tradition, approach, or philosophy, manuscripts submitted to AJCI should demonstrate the relevance of topics
investigated to the advancement of agricultural knowledge and better understanding of crop improvement in Africa. AJCI recognizes plant breeding as a multi-disciplinary endeavor and communicates scientific advances in the
various sub-domains encompassing domestication, germplasm collection, characterization and conservation; pre-breeding and breeding of major and underutilized crop species; cultivar development, evaluation and
registration/announcement; trait discovery, validation and introgression; genomics-assisted breeding and genome editing; phenomics and speed breeding. Manuscripts submitted to AJCI should demonstrate high standards of conceptual and analytical science that illustrates the integration of traditional and modern breeding methods relevant for the advancement of agricultural research and development in Africa.

2. CONTENT

The content of publications will include short communications, full research papers, invited reviews, data notes and scientific perspectives.

Editors

Editor- in-Chief

Prof. Julia Sibiya

Deputy Editor

Damaris A. Odeny

Managing Editor

Enoch Achigan-Dako

Subject categories for submission

Domestication, germplasm collection, conservation and characterization

Chiedozie Egesi
(Associate Editor)

Pre-breeding and breeding of major and underutilized crop species

Casper Kamutando
(Associate Editor)

Maryke Labuschagne
(Associate Editor)

Development, evaluation & registration/ announcement of crop germplasm

Beatrice Elohor Ifie
(Associate Editor)

Esuma Williams
(Associate Editor)

Trait discovery, validation, and introgression, genomics-assisted breeding and genome editing

Francis Ogbonnaya
(Associate Editor)

Kelvin Kamfwa
(Associate Editor)

Phenomics and speed breeding

Rashid Serraj
(Associate Editor)

Advisory Board​

Pangirayi Tongoona (WACCI, Ghana)

Rose Marks
(Michigan State University, USA) 

Evans Lagudah
(CSIRO, Australia)

Allen Van Deynze
(UC Davis, USA)

Walter Suza
( Iowa State University )