International project with South Korea aims to further develop methods for researching heat and drought stress of wheat
JKI breeding researcher visits partners to discuss next steps
Southkorea’s National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, NAS and JKI host an International Joint Symposium and sign a Joint Declaration of Intent to intensify their research cooperation
A JKI delegation visits its cooperation partners in Jeonju from April 20th-22nd 2026.
New Approaches in Organic Plant Protection: Phage Derivatives Against Fire Blight and Microbial Priming in Lettuce
“ABBAonFire” and “Resist” are two collaborative in-house projects at the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) that were selected from a pool of 13 outstanding proposals for funding. Both initiatives focus on harnessing natural organisms to sustainably combat plant diseases in organic farming and to promote plant health.
Junior Professor and Humboldt Fellow from Melbourne chose JKI for his Research
Australian breeding researcher stays at the Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance until the end of year.
![[Translate to Englisch:] Schräge Draufsicht auf Versuchsparzellen mit verschiedenen Weizensorten. Je nach Befall mit Gelbrost-Pilzen unterscheiden sich die angebauten Sorten in ihrer Gelbfärbung.](/media/_processed_/f/2/csm_PI2023-13_BRIWECS-Winterweizen_Gesamteindruck_6150ce8d47.jpg "[Translate to Englisch:] Grundlage der Studie in Nature Plants war der Winterweizen-Versuch BRIWECS. Das Bild zeigt verschiedene Sorten am Versuchsort Quedlinburg mit unterschiedlich starkem Gelbrost-Befall. ©Holger Zetzsche/JKI")
Better yield modeling helps to breed better wheat varieties
[Direct link to paper] Nature study with JKI input. Analysis of 220 winter wheat varieties on environmental genotype interactions. With the new approach, the performance of new varieties can be predicted more accurately under different environmental scenarios.
First resistances against Wheat dwarf virus discovered
Researchers at the Julius Kühn Institute identify 14 gene loci that are promising for breeding new virus-resistant wheat varieties
JKI president Ordon and federal minister of agriculture Julia Klöckner visit collaboration project in Ethiopia
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…
Establishment of a European Evaluation Network (EVA) on wheat and barley – Workshop in Berlin 27-28 November 2018
A Private Public Partnership (PPP) for the evaluation of genetic resources in Europe has made significant steps ahead in a meeting held 27-28 November 2018 at the Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) in Berlin, Germany.The ECPGR Workshop for the establishment of a European Evaluation Network (EVA) on wheat and barley, sponsored by the German Federal…
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…
Project EUCLEG – Breeding forage and grain legumes to increase EU and China's protein self-sufficiency
The strategic goal of EUCLEG is to reduce Europe and China’s dependency on protein imports by developing efficient breeding strategies for the legume crops of a major economic importance in human food and animal feed. The objective is to improve diversification of crops, crop productivity, yield stability and protein quality of both forage (alfalfa…