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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...

(January 2018) The International JKI/UFOP-Workshop “Clubroot disease in oilseed rape - status quo and research demand” was held in...

Several experts are urging the European Commission to develop legislation that will allow EU countries to individually authorize the...

The strategic goal of EUCLEG is to reduce Europe and China’s dependency on protein imports by developing efficient breeding strategies for the...

Details about the use, minimization and replacement strategies of copper in Germany published in an open access review article at journal...

Berlin, 20-22 September 2017

Water is a natural resource of vital importance in agriculture. This makes it also a limiting factor for growing sufficient crops to ensure...

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Biocides are applied to protect humans against pests, fungal infections, alga or bacteria. The JKI-Institute for Application Techniques in...

Identifying current knowledge gaps and potentially efficient strategies to control "Spotted Wing Drosophila"

J-TEAM is Jens Keilwagen from JKI, Stefan Posch and Jan Grau from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg