Julius Kühn-Institut
The Julius Kühn -Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants ( JKI) is in the business of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( BmEL ) due to the law for the reorganization of departmental research of 24 October 2007 established research facility.
In the Institute that bears the name of the agricultural scientist Julius Kühn, the Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry and the Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated involving two institutes of the Federal Agricultural Research Centre were (Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science and Institute of Crop and Grassland Science ) summarized. It has its headquarters in Quedlinburg and several branch offices in Berlin, Braunschweig, Darmstadt, Dossenheim, Dresden Pillnitz, Sindelsdorf, United Lüsewitz, Kleinmachnow, Münster and Siebeldingen.
The JKI comprises the following Institutes:
- Institute in Quedlinburg Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics
- Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection
- Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance
- Safety of biotechnological processes in plants
- Breeding Research on Horticultural and Fruit Crops, also in Dresden- Pillnitz with coordinating body German Fruit Genebank
- Breeding Research on Agricultural Crops
- Institute in Braunschweig Application Techniques in Plant Protection
- Epidemiology and Pathogen, in Quedlinburg
- Crop and Soil Science
- Plant health
- Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland
- Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests
- Institute in Berlin and Kleinmachnow Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection, also in Quedlinburg
- Strategies and Technology Assessment
- Institutions at other locations Biological plant protection in Darmstadt
- Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture in Dossenheim and Siebeldingen
- Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof Siebeldingen
- Breeding Research on Horticultural and Fruit Crops in Dresden- Pillnitz and Quedlinburg
- Horticulture and forestry - Vertebrate Research - Münster
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Head of the institution is the horticultural scientist and Phytomediziner Georg F. Backhaus, who had previously been since 2002 Head of the Federal Biological Research Centre in Berlin and Braunschweig.