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

The abbreviation FACE stands for "Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment" and describes a facility for outdoor experiments in which different carbon dioxide concentrations can be specifically adjusted. Since mid-July (2021) such a facility has been newly set up at the JKI's experimental field in Braunschweig (Brunswick). Concentrations of the…

Morocco joins Wheat Initiative

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

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 under the German EU Council Presidency to discuss current issues of European agricultural and food policy. The main agenda was complemented by a supporting programme on Monday, 31 August, to which Julia…

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 viruses. The JKI contributes its collection of viruses that infect cultivated plants. If you are looking for information about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the current COVID-19 pandemic, you will…

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 reopening ceremony on 25 February, 60,000 new seed samples provided by 29 institutions from all over the world arrived at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Among them, for the first time, were seeds from the…

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 Highlights. It became one of the most popular articles and book chapters published last year, and reflecting top research that made an impact:Steinberg, P., van der Voet, H., Goedhart, P.W. et al. Lack of adverse…

JKI as exhibitor at Biofach fair in Nuremberg in hall 9-351

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

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

The DWIH (German Centre for Research and Innovation) New Delhi along with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in New Delhi organized a Science Circle Lecture with the President of the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon. “Combating the challenge of biotic and abiotic stress in food crops by genomics based breeding”, so the…

Towards a more sustainable Agriculture through managing the Soil Microbiome

JKI and its Uruguayen partner INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria) organized an international workshop at Montevideo/Uruguay adjacent to the REDBIO conference. From 14-16 November 2019, fifty experts are discussing the role of soil microbiomes in agro-ecosystems for soil and plant health and the potential for development of more…