JKI organizes Indo-German Workshop on Bacterial Communities on Plants and in Soil
in Potsdam from June 20th to 22nd, 2022
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
First resistances against Wheat dwarf virus discovered
Researchers at the Julius Kühn Institute identify 14 gene loci that are promising for breeding new virus-resistant wheat varieties
JKI microbiologist is one of the world's most cited researchers in 2021
The database "Highly Cited Researchers" operated by Clarivate Analytics lists microbiome researcher Prof. Dr. Dr. Kornelia Smalla among the 6,600 most cited researchers worldwide in 2021.
CROPDIVA-Project wants six underused arable crops back in European fields
Oats, hulless barley for human consumption, triticale, buckwheat, faba beans and lupins: These crops should in the future grow more often in the fields. That is the goal of the Horizon 2020 project CROPDIVA. 27 European partners from 12 countries joined forces to enhance agrobiodiversity in Europe. They will achieve this by focusing on crop…
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…