Dr. Michael Kwabena Osei is a Senior Research Scientist and a Tomato Breeder of the CSIR-CRI, Kumasi, Ghana. He was employed at the CSIR-CRI in 2004 as an Assistant Research Scientist to work on vegetable breeding at the Horticulture division of the Institute. During this period, he attended trainings at the AVRDC-The World Vegetable Centre, Arusha, Tanzania and Wageningen University, The Netherlands where he obtained a diploma in vegetable breeding and a certificate in Plant Variety Protection respectively. He was later enrolled at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science of Technology, Kumasi to pursue MSc. degree in Plant Breeding and graduated in 2010.