Julius Kühn-Institut – Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen (JKI) is the German Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants. It is a federal research institute and a higher federal authority divided into 15 specialized institutes. Its objectives, mission and research scope were determined by section 11, paragraph 57 of the 1987 Federal Law on the Protection of Cultivated Plants as subsequently amended. The JKI was named after the German agricultural scientist

Julius Kühn Julius Gotthelf Kühn (23 October 1825 – 14 April 1910) was a German academic and agronomist and he was one of the founders of Plant Pathology. Kuhn's father was a land owner and he gained experience in agriculture and botany on his father's la ...

(1825–1910). It was formed in January 2008 when three research centres in the

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merged: * Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA), * Federal Institute for Plant Breeding Research on crops (BAZ) and *

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(FAL) (two institutes) It has its main office at Quedlinburg and centres at

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, Dresden-Pillnitz, Elsdorf, Groß Lüsewitz,

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and

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Institutes

* Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics (Quedlinburg and Braunschweig) * Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection (Quedlinburg, Berlin and Kleinmachnow) * Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance (Quedlinburg) * Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology (Quedlinburg) * Breeding Research on Horticultural and Fruit Crops (Quedlinburg and Dresden) * Breeding Research on Agricultural Crops (Quedlinburg) * Application Techniques in Plant Protection (Braunschweig) * Crop and Soil Science (Braunschweig) * National and International Plant Health (Braunschweig) * Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland (Braunschweig) * Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests (Braunschweig and Münster) * Strategies and Technology Assessment (Berlin and Kleinmachnow) * Biological Control (Darmstadt) * Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture (Dossenheim, Siebeldingen, Bernkastel-Kues) * Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (Siebeldingen) * Experimental station for potato breeding (Groß Lüsewitz)

Notable people

The facility is headed by breeding researcher Frank Ordon. He succeeded the horticultural and phytomedical scientist Georg F. Backhaus, who had previously been head of the Federal Biological Institute in Berlin and Braunschweig since 2002. * Georg F. Backhaus (born 1955), agricultural scientist * (1928–2021), phytopathologist and forest scientist *

Falko Feldmann Falko Feldmann (born 1959 in Goslar Goslar (; Eastphalian: ''Goslär'') is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. T ...

(born 1959), biologist and phytomedicine specialist *

Gregor Hagedorn Gregor Hagedorn (born 1965) is a German botanist and academic director at the Natural History Museum, Berlin. Life Gregor Hagedorn studied biology at the University of Tübingen and at Duke University (North Carolina). Afterwards, he worke ...

(born 1965), botanist * Johannes Hallmann (born 1964), agricultural scientist and phytomedicine specialist * (born 1961), veterinarian, microbiologist and hygienist * Johannes A. Jehle (born 1961), biologist, insect virologist and phytomedical scientist * (1887–1960), agronomist and vine grower * (born 1963), agricultural scientist *

Ewald Schnug Ewald Schnug (born 7 September 1954) is a German agricultural scientist, university lecturer and researcher specialised in Plant nutrition and Soil science. Life Schnug was born in Hachenburg, Westerwald, the first child of the master gardener ...

(born 1954), agricultural scientist, university lecturer and researcher *

Kornelia Smalla Kornelia Smalla (born 1956) is a chemist and biotechnologist at the Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI) in Braunschweig and a university lecturer in microbiology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Life and work After finishing school, Sma ...

(born 1956), chemist and biotechnologist * (1923–2018), Professor of Biochemistry * (born 1946), soil scientist

External links

Website

References

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