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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Press Release of INRAE published on 23 February 2020: Alternatives to Chemical Pesticides: 24 European Research Institutes Undertake an...

The DWIH (German Centre for Research and Innovation) New Delhi along with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in New Delhi organized...

JKI and its Uruguayen partner INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria) organized an international workshop at Montevideo/Uruguay...

During her trip to Ethiopia (9 – 11 October 2019) federal minister of agriculture Julia Klöckner was accompanied by JKI president Prof. Frank...

Based on an interdisciplinary publication with JKI contribution in the Journal "Ecological Economics", the European Commission published a...

Manure is a valuable resource but also a risk for emissions. It should be managed efficiently to make use of the valuable nutrients and to...

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

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

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

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

Is pesticide-free agriculture possible? German and French researchers are now working together to answer this question: The Leibniz Centre for...

Bruna Czarnobai de Jorge, Ph.D. student and visiting scientist at the Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture in...

During the next three years, namely until 2021, the coordination team of the globally active Heat and Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium...

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...

A Private Public Partnership (PPP) for the evaluation of genetic resources in Europe has made significant steps ahead in a meeting held 27-28...

EcoStack is a new 5-year research and innovation project of the European Union to promote sustainability of agricultural systems. The Julius...

Professor Kornelia Smalla from JKI involved

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...

JKI member of the research team funded with 2 million euros by the German Research Foundation (DFG) See press release of the Biotechnology...