Franco-German research initiative on low-pesticide agriculture in Europe
Is pesticide-free agriculture possible? German and French researchers are now working together to answer this question: The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) have launched a unique Europe-wide research initiative together. On…
Visiting scientist at JKI Dossenheim receives travel grant and research prize
Bruna Czarnobai de Jorge, Ph.D. student and visiting scientist at the Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture in Dossenheim, was rewarded twice: The researcher from Brazil was declared N-GAGE Champion for her Ph.D. project. She also receives a travel grant to the IUPAC Next Generation Agri-Summit, which takes place in Ghent,…
Germany’s Julius Kuehn Institute to host the HeDWIC coordination for the next three years
During the next three years, namely until 2021, the coordination team of the globally active Heat and Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium (HeDWIC) will be based at the Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) in Germany. HeDWIC for short is a programme associated with the international Wheat Initiative (https://www.wheatinitiative.org/). The JKI has been…
Think aloud! JKI scientists contribute to GFFA Science Slam on 18 January 2019
The science slam held on the Green Week opening day is a novelty at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). Altogether five slam presentations are scheduled, two of them given by JKI scientists. Ten minutes – that is the time available to Dr. Anna Kicherer (JKI Institute for Grapevine Breeding) and Jobst Gödeke (JKI Institute for…
Establishment of a European Evaluation Network (EVA) on wheat and barley – Workshop in Berlin 27-28 November 2018
A Private Public Partnership (PPP) for the evaluation of genetic resources in Europe has made significant steps ahead in a meeting held 27-28 November 2018 at the Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) in Berlin, Germany.The ECPGR Workshop for the establishment of a European Evaluation Network (EVA) on wheat and barley, sponsored by the German Federal…
EU-horizon 2020 project EcoStack: Kick-off Meeting in Italy
EcoStack is a new 5-year research and innovation project of the European Union to promote sustainability of agricultural systems. The Julius Kühn Institute is one of the 24 project partnerns. More info on EcoStack www.ecostack-h2020.eu EcoStack Press Release: EcoStack (Stacking of ecosystem services: mechanisms and interactions for optimal…
Priority programme of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG “Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions” (SPP 2089) starts
Professor Kornelia Smalla from JKI involved
3rd International Workshop on Interactions between crop plants and human pathogens
59 experts from 21 countries worldwide joined the Berlin-workshop held March 12 and 13, and presented the current state of art on this topical subject. Chairs of two out of four sessions has been experts from the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI): Prof. Dr. Kornelia Smalla (Session: Mobile elements: antibiotics resistance, epigenetics, phages, mechanisms…
An international group of biotech specialists and legal experts propose a new mechanism for GM crops in the EU – Publication in Nature Biotechnology
Several experts are urging the European Commission to develop legislation that will allow EU countries to individually authorize the cultivation of GM crop varieties that have passed EU risk assessment.
Project EUCLEG – Breeding forage and grain legumes to increase EU and China's protein self-sufficiency
The strategic goal of EUCLEG is to reduce Europe and China’s dependency on protein imports by developing efficient breeding strategies for the legume crops of a major economic importance in human food and animal feed. The objective is to improve diversification of crops, crop productivity, yield stability and protein quality of both forage (alfalfa…