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Julius Kühn-Institute lettering plus motto of the JKI with representation of the triad of research, evaluation and advice

The Julius Kühn Institute

Hand stroking ripe ears of wheat

Feeding the growing world population

dry and cracked soil

Responding to climate change

Man checks the quality of the soil he holds in his hand

Using natural resources responsibly

mixed fruit

Preserving and using genetic resources

fully loaded containership

Ensuring safe trade in plants

varied landscape with blue flowers, meadow, trees

Maintaining and enhancing biodiversity

large field, lake and trees in the background

Environmentally compatible farming

urban green in Berlin, front: trees, background: Berlin skyline

Keeping plants in urban spaces healthy

  • 17.06.2022

    June 20th-22nd: JKI organizes Indo-German Workshop on Bacterial Communities on Plants and in Soil

  • 09.05.2022

    JKI study proves: Red Riesling originated from White Riesling – not vice versa

  • Geerntete Weizenpflanzen liegen aufgereiht nebeneinander und zeigen von links nach rechts schwächer ausgeprägte Symptome des Weizenverzwergungsvirus. Die Pflanzen ganz rechts sind symptomfrei.

    19.04.2022

    First resistances against Wheat dwarf virus discovered

  • Portrait Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn-Institut.

    24.11.2021

    JKI microbiologist is one of the world's most cited researchers in 2021

  • 09.11.2021

    CROPDIVA-Project wants six underused arable crops back in European fields

  • Luftaufnahme der FACE-Anlage am JKI-Institut für Pflanzenbau und Bodenkunde in Braunschweig. © L. Kottmann/JKI

    22.07.2021

    A FACE facility is being built at the JKI site in Braunschweig

  • JKI-Genbank Dresden: Erhaltung von Erdbeersorten und Fragaria-Wildarten. © M.Höfer/JKI

    24.02.2021

    New EU research project BreedingValue aims to develop new breeding strategies for resilient and nutritious berries

    European research partners and breeders are coming together to jointly focus on a better understanding and adaptation of the genetic resources...

  • 18.11.2020

    Morocco joins Wheat Initiative

    The Wheat Initiative, which is based at the JKI in Berlin-Dahlem, welcomes Morocco as a new member.

  • 02.09.2020

    JKI research on display at informal Council meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers

    From 29 August to 1 September 2020, the Agriculture Ministers of the 27 EU member states met in Koblenz for their so-called Informal Meeting...

  • 30.03.2020

    JKI becomes core partner of the European Virus Archive Global EVAg

    Step by step, plant viruses are now also being added to the digital catalogue, which was previously only focused on human and animal pathogenic...

  • 10.03.2020

    Seeds from JKI Fruit Gene Bank deposited in perpetual ice

    The repair of the Global Seed Vault near Longyearbyen on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen took two years and cost 20 million dollars. At the...

  • 03.03.2020

    Publication on GM maize feeding studies among Springer Nature Highlights 2019

    A publication by the EU-project G-TWyST (duration 2014 - 2018) with contributions from JKI experts is among the Springer Nature 2019...

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  • 03.05.2022

    PI2022-07: JKI study proves: Red Riesling originated from White Riesling – not vice versa.

    Berry color locus of the Red Riesling variant located on the chromosome set of the white-berried parent White Heunisch

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Events

  • Header Symposium of Grapevine Breeding and Genetics 2022

    10.07.2022 to 17.07.2022

    XIII. International Symposium on Grapevine Breeding and Genetics

    JKI | Conference in Siebeldingen

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