secretariat of the Wheat Initiative, the HeDWIC coordination headquarters is located at the JKI as well,” says Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon. The President of the JKI is also chair of the Wheat Initiative’s research committee

for me to take part in this big event in the perpetual ice only 800 kilometres from the North Pole," says Dr. Monika Höfer from the JKI Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops in Dresden. The manager

wheat,” Dr. Bernd Hackauf from JKI says. “In such plant communities spontaneous hybridizations between closely related cereals happen under natural conditions,” says the research scientist working at the

into the European Virus Archive, such as new types of nanovirus, which are a focus of JKI research," says Dr. Katja Richert-Pöggeler, who supervises the electron microscopic investigations at the JKI Institute

platform for breeding researchers, grapevine breeders and wine growers from all over the world“, says Dr. Reinhard Töpfer, head of JKI’s Institute for Grapevine Breeding. The Institute under the roof

should remain collective as it is today, under the auspices of the European Food Safety Authority, says Dennis Eriksson, lead author of the proposal. This enables more comprehensive and consistent assessments

disease by spreading disease agents, and both are detrimental to plants. But plants also have their say. According to Gross, insect-feeding insects have been found to eavesdrop on plant-phytopathogen-vector

are able to implement Ddw1 in elite rye germplasm with a precision that was not feasible before,” says Dr. Bernd Hackauf from the Julius Kühn-Institute. In the middle of the 20th century, the breeding [...] molecular data reveal that Ddw1 could be a key to enhancing the drought tolerance of rye as well”, says Hackauf. Together with their partners, the scientists of the Julius Kühn-Institute succeeded in i

help us make the sour cherry more robust against diseases and fit for climate change in the future," says Wöhner. Background Sour cherries originated in Eastern Europe and Asia Minor. One ancestor, the sweet

preprocessed remote sensing information in a timely manner and to integrate them into their operations”, says Dr. Holger Lilienthal from the JKI. He coordinates the project, which has just been launched and received

preprocessed remote sensing information in a timely manner and to integrate them into their operations”, says Dr. Holger Lilienthal from the JKI. He coordinates the project, which has just been launched and received

work, CIMMYT contributes to the improvement of wheat and maize varieties and thus to higher yields," says Dr. Hans-Joachim Braun, director of CIMMYT's Global Wheat Program. The breeding researcher knows about

elite wheat lines and are thus a promising tool for generating resistant varieties in the future," says Pfrieme, describing the significance of her research results for agricultural practice. The interest

spontaneous mutations from red to white berries were observed again and again, but never vice versa," says Dr. Franco Röckel of the Julius Kühn Institute in Siebeldingen. "The examination of the chromosome

without the close, door-to-door cooperation with the internationally renowned virologists at the JKI”, says Dr. Winter. “For instance, in my cassava research I was able to use the JKI’s research greenhouses

further in-depth characterization. Prof Dr Nils Stein (IPK Gatersleben and University of Göttingen) says: “This publication enables us to fully describe the wide range of morphological diversity of a worldwide