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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

Plakat Motiv für die Messer Biofach Broccoli. 12. - 15.02.2020

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

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

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

Booklet: Workshop JKI-INIA 14.-16.11.2019: 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…

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

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

During her trip to Ethiopia (9 – 11 October 2019) federal minister of agriculture Julia Klöckner was accompanied by JKI president Prof. Frank Ordon. The German delegation visited a joint research project of the JKI-Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance in Quedlinburg and the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) in…

JKI and Brazilian Amazonas University sign declaration of intent

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

Last Friday (13 Sept 2019), the Chancellor of the University of the State of Amazonas (UEA) Dr. Cleinaldo de Almeida Costa and the JKI-President Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon signed a declaration to mark the two parties’ commitment to cooperation. The signing of this Joint Declaration of Intent between the university based in Manaus in Brazil and the…

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