Inhalt: Press Releases of the Julius Kühn Institute
JKI Press Releases are usually written in German. If you change to our German website (DE), you will find more current press releases. Furthermore, all JKI press releases (since 2008) are accessible through the idw scientific information service.
Global trade and the introduction of pests: a threat to our crops
JKI presentation at Green Week in Berlin draws public attention to International Year of Plant Health. Further activities planned. Animated video shows what everyone should bear in mind when ordering plants on the Internet.
A step towards food security: German and Mexican researchers working jointly on the wheat of tomorrow
CIMMYT and JKI signed Declaration of Intent to intensify joint research on wheat
Julius Kühn-Institute coordinates the Subnetwork Pelargonium belonging to the German Gene Bank for Ornamental Plants
Since October 2019, the Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) in Quedlinburg coordinates the Subnetwork (TNW) Pelargonium of the Gene Bank for Vegetatively Propagated Plants belonging to the German Gene Bank for Ornamental Plants (DGZ). The German Federal Plant Variety Office (BSA) is responsible for the overall coordination of the particular subnetworks of…
A "short" revolution in rye fields: enhancing yield and drought tolerance with semi-dwarfs
Researchers of the JKI are part of an international consortium that aims to make this small grain cereal more attractive for farmers and fit for the challenges of climate change as well. A current study delivers precisions tools for using the dominant dwarfing gene Ddw1 in rye breeding and conveys new insights into its mode of action.
Plant virus threatening African staple food
20 June 2019 - Joint Press Release DSMZ and JKI
Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) and Brazil's EMBRAPA sign "Declaration of Intent" to forge transnational research alliance in the bioeconomy sector
At the GreenRio trade fair, the German Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants and its counterpart in Brazil, EMBRAPA, decided to cooperate in future on research issues in the field of bioeconomics.
The dawn of a new era for genebanks
An international research consortium characterised a world genebank-collection of barley at the molecular level comprising seed samples from more than 22,000 varieties. In their study published in Nature Genetics (DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0266-x) the scientists propose a new era for genebanks transforming them from museums of past crop diversity…
Animal feeding studies add limited value to GM Plant risk assessment
Genetically modified (GM) crops and food have aroused controversy in Europe. Among the contentious points is the apparently conflicting evidence on health risks from animal feeding studies: the variability in evidence may often be attributed to methodological inadequacies in some small-scale studies. The latest, most comprehensive research, funded…
The Wheat Initiative, set up by the G20 Agriculture Ministers to coordinate global wheat research, moves its headquarters to Berlin
Common Press Release Julius Kühn Institute & WHEAT INITIATIVE
Research fellow from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation opted for Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)
JKI host of postdoctoral researcher receiving a Georg Forster Research Fellowship