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Drift and Risk Reduction

During spraying plant protection products can drift to non-target areas. Drift cannot be avoided completely but has to be minimized to prevent pollution of the natural environment as well as residents

Alternative Plant Protection Techniques

Non-chemical crop protection plays an increasing role in many application areas. The Institute for Application Techniques in Plant Protection deals with these challenges in different ways. Testing the

Epidemiology and prognosis

Knowledge of the mode of spread and dispersal of pests and pathogens and the influence of environmental parameters is crucial for the development of disease forecasting systems and the modelling of pe

Horticulture

The field of horticulture includes a variety of crops that are suitable for consumption, pleasing the eye, promoting biodiversity and enhancing health and well-being. Vegetables are among the basic fo

Plant protection products and active substances in horticulture

Horticultural crops as well as forestry crops can be damaged by a large variety of harmful organisms to such an extent that complete crop and yield losses can occur. The spectrum here ranges from weed

Vertebrates

While vertebrates can cause considerable damage to crops, they are also being affected in their way of life by cultivation farming. The vertebrate research group at our Institute focuses on the ecolog

Resilience of varieties and variety candidates

High-performance plant varieties of vegetables, ornamental, medicinal and aromatic plants and in tree nurseries are of great importance for successful crop management in horticulture. The ornamental p

Evaluation of plant protection products and active ingredients in arable farming and grassland

Our legally assigned tasks include participation in the national and zonal approval process for plant protection products, including EU active substance testing. We evaluate various test parameters fo

Biology and ecology of harmful organisms

We conduct research on a wide range of topics relating to the biology and ecology of important pathogens in arable crops. From weeds to fungal pests and insects to nematodes, we deal with diagnosis, b

Resilience of cultivars and cultivar candidates

Resistant crop varieties are a central building block for integrated crop protection concepts. The testing of candidate varieties for their susceptibility to pests and diseases is anchored in the Germ

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Bioinformatics and Digitalization

The genetic material of plants can be altered by crossing, natural mutations, targeted induction of mutations by radiation or chemicals, and biotechnological methods. The aim of our work is to detect

Evaluation of plant genetic resources

Old and modern cultivated plants (varieties, landraces) as well as crop wild relatives are valuable genetic resources, which may carry a particular resistance to individual pests or tolerance to abiot

Risk Research on Genome Modification and Gene Expression

Breeding interferes directly or indirectly with the genetic material of plants. This is also true for genetic engineering methods and emerging biological techniques in plant breeding. The aim of our w

Utilization concepts for resistances and tolerances

When resistant varieties of our crops are wildly cultivated, resistance traits are regularly overcome by evolutionary adaptations of pathogens, i.e. single resistance genes lose their protective effec

Fruit breeding

In order to meet the demands of future fruit growing, we are developing new cultivars that meet the growing interest of consumers for sustainable products with high quality, good taste and attractive

Plant-Environment Interactions

Economic, social, and climatic changes pose challenges to modern agriculture and require new ideas, approaches, and methods. This includes the cultivation of previously unused or newly bred crops and

Breeding Research

Developing methods and procedures for breeding research to uncover the genetic basis underpinning various traits . We make selection decisions that accelerate the development of new cultivars based on

Risk Assessment of Biotechnological Methods in Plant Production

The cultivation and placing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on the market are strictly regulated in the EU and Germany. Under European law, whether GMOs – at present particularly plants - can be

Early Warning System

Digital exchange of information Durch umfassende Einfuhrkontrollen von Warensendungen mit Pflanzen oder Pflanzenprodukten durch die Pflanzenschutzdienste soll der Einschleppung von Schadorganismen vor

Valorization of plant genetic resources

In order to secure agricultural yields in times of climate change under the premises of more sustainability, we need to develop new adapted varieties of our crops. These varieties need to be able to c

Risk Analysis

The Institute examines whether harmful organisms pose a serious threat to Germany or Europe. The analysis is based on international standards, which differ for quarantine pests and RNQPs. For each org

Plant Genetic Resources

The institute evaluates morphological, cultivation-technological, secondary metabolites and resistance characteristics of plant genetic resources in horticultural crops (see also German Genebank Ornam

Breeding methods

The institute develops breeding strategies to improve crop quality and increase yield (link NWG). At the same time, plant tolerance to factors of abiotic stress and resistance to biotic stress are bei

Fruit genetic resources, Fruit Genebank

Since inception of the Dresden-Pillnitz research location, fruit genetic resources have been collected and transferred here from other locations in Germany and abroad. In our fruit genebank, accession

Pre-Breeding

Breeding new crop varieties is complex, cost-intensive and time consuming. At the institute, we search for resistance properties and secondary metabolite profiles in various crop assortments in partic

Plant health

The term "plant health" covers all measures and regulations aimed at preventing hitherto non-native pests that damage plants or plant products from entering the EU. Without natural antagonists, these

National reference laboratory

The National Reference Laboratory at the Julius Kühn Institute (NRL-JKI) supports the laboratories of the plant protection services of the German federal states in the diagnosis of harmful organisms a

Phytosanitary Regulations, Standards and Guidelines

A variety of measures is taken in almost all countries of the world to protect against quarantine pests. These include, for example, inspection of plants and plant products during import and export, t

Coordination and Contact Point for Germany and the EU

Phytosanitary (plant health) regulations and measures in the Member States of the European Union are based on the harmonised rules of the Plant Health Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 and the Regulation on O

Risk assessment of genetically modified plants

The cultivation and sale of genetically modified organisms (GMO) are strictly regulated in the EU. Under European law, the release of GMO – currently mainly plants - is subject to a detailed assessmen

Climate adaptation strategies

Climate adaptation strategies aim to reduce both climate-relevant emissions and harmful effects of climate change on production systems, or to exploit positive effects, e.g. by increasing CO 2 levels

Plant raw materials

A current challenge is the transition from a fossil-based economy to a bioeconomy in which fossil raw materials are successively substituted by biobased raw materials. These include specific carbohydr

Resource-conserving crop production systems

For the sustainable and environmentally friendly use of the resources necessary for crop production, it is important to optimally use the means of production, to regulate or limit their use if necessa

Development of trait-linked markers

In modern grapevine breeding, we use marker-assisted selection (MAS). MAS is a very efficient diagnostic method that helps to determine breeding-relevant traits of young seedlings on a genetic level a

Breeding of new varieties

Whether fungal diseases or animal pests, whether climate change or wine quality: JKI grapevine breeding makes a significant contribution to solving open questions and challenges in viticulture. Until

Conservation and characterisation of genetic resources

The characterisation of biodiversity, the determination of varietal authenticity and genealogical research serve to evaluate and conserve varietal diversity. Resource conservation More than 3,000 grap

Physiology of pathogen defence

One of the most important tasks in grapevine breeding is to breed new grapevine varieties with high resistance to fungal pathogens. This is a requirement for ecologically sustainable viticulture with

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Fields of activity

Conservation and characterisation of genetic resources Development of trait-linked markers Breeding of new varieties Physiology of pathogen defence Information Centre Grapevine and Wine Development of

Fields of activity

Epidemiology of Pathogens Diagnosis of Pathogens Vertebrate Research Variability of Plant Associated Microorganisms Microbiome of Crop Plants

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