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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

  • 19.11.2019

    German Agricultural Ministry’s State Secretary Aeikens opens international conference on improving drought stress tolerance organized by the Julius Kühn Institute

  • Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon (Präsident JKI) am Rednerpult während des Science CIrcle Lecture

    15.11.2019

    Science Circle Lecture: Combating the challenge of biotic and abiotic stress in food crops by genomics based breeding

  • Booklet: Workshop JKI-INIA 14.-16.11.2019: Towards a more sustainable Agriculture through managing the Soil Microbiome

    15.11.2019

    Towards a more sustainable Agriculture through managing the Soil Microbiome

  • Die deutsche Delegation des Bundeslandwirtschaftsministeriums (BMEL) mit Ministerin Julia Klöckner (Mitte) und JKI-Präsident Frank Ordon (2.v.l. vorne) zu Besuch am Holeta Agricultural Research Center (HARC) in Äthiopien. © BMEL

    15.10.2019

    JKI president Ordon and federal minister of agriculture Julia Klöckner visit collaboration project in Ethiopia

  • Regenwurm im Boden

    26.09.2019

    JKI contribution published in the weekly News Alert of the European Commission„Science for Environment Policy“

  • 23.09.2019

    How to make the most of manure? Handbook on good manure management practices online available.

  • v.l. Dr. Cleinaldo de Almeida Costa (Universität der Amazonasregion) und JKI-Präsident Frank Ordon bei der Unterzeichnung der gemeinsamen Absichtserklärung am 13.9.2019 in Potsdam © Marthe/JKI

    17.09.2019

    JKI and Brazilian Amazonas University sign declaration of intent

    Last Friday (13 Sept 2019), the Chancellor of the University of the State of Amazonas (UEA) Dr. Cleinaldo de Almeida Costa and the...

  • 20.08.2019

    International Congress 19. – 20.11.2019 in Berlin: Genetic diversity – The key for improving drought stress tolerance in crops

  • Gruppenbild: from left: Til Feike (JKI), Sabine Lieberz (@FASeurope), Bryan Purcell (@USDAForeignAg), JKI-President Prof. Frank Ordon, Leif Erik Rehder (@FASeurope), Dr. Florian Bittner (JKI-Researchcoodinator)

    17.07.2019

    Delegation of the US-Department of Agriculture visits JKI headquarters

    In the afternoon of July 15th a delegation of three agricultural specialists of the US-Department of Agriculture (USDA) visited the JKI in...

  • Stipendiaten des Trainingskurses „Food Chains in Agriculture“ besuchten das JKI-Institut für Biologischen Pflanzenschutz in Darmstadt (© Simon Feiertag/JKI)

    27.06.2019

    African scholarship holders interested in biological plant protection at the JKI in Darmstadt

    Visit from Africa to Darmstadt: 27 scholarship holders from eleven African countries visited the Institute for Biological Control in Darmstadt...

  • Dr. Frank Marthe (ZG) auf Dt.-Brasil.-Workshop zu Medizinalpflanzen © Florian Bittner/JKI

    29.05.2019

    JKI hosts German-Brazilian workshop on medicinal plants in Manaus

    After a first promising German-Brazilian workshop on medicinal plants, which the JKI and the University of the State of Amazonas (UEA) hosted...

  • 16.05.2019

    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...

Press

  • Dr. Hans-Joachim Braun (l.) vom CIMMYT, Mexiko und Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon (r.), Präsident des JKI nach erfolgreicher Unterzeichnung der gemeinsamen Absichtserklärung

    20.11.2019

    A step towards food security: German and Mexican researchers working jointly on the wheat of tomorrow

    CIMMYT and JKI signed Declaration of Intent to intensify joint research on wheat

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Events

  • 06.12.2019

    Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Interactions between crop plants and human pathogens

    Tulln | Austria

  • 04.02.2020

    Lecture: Habitat selection of Bufo bufo in an agricultural landscape

    JKI | Münster

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    Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
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