damage. Flowering time and véraison (beginning of berry ripening) significantly control the ripening window and thus influence harvest time and achievable wine quality. First gene loci for budding, flowering

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

Inhalt: Who we are The Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) is the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants in Germany and an independent higher federal authority in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry