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Formed
  
2008

Founded
  
2008

Phone
  
+49 6151 4070

Headquarters
  
Quedlinburg, Germany

Number of employees
  
1,200

Julius Kühn-Institut

Agency executive
  
Dr. Georg F. Backhaus, President

Website
  
http://www.jki.bund.de/

Address
  
Heinrichstraße 243, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany

Parent agency
  
Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Germany)

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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. The JKI was named after the German agricultural scientist Julius Kühn (1825–1910).

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It was formed in January 2008 when three research centres in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture merged:

  • Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA),
  • Federal Institute for Plant Breeding Research on crops (BAZ) and
  • Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL) (two institutes)

    • It has its main office at Quedlinburg and centres at Berlin, Braunschweig, Darmstadt, Dossenheim, Dresden-Pillnitz, Elsdorf, Groß Lüsewitz, Kleinmachnow, Münster and Siebeldingen.

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    JKI Institutes

    Institute for

  • 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 (Siebeldingen)
  • Experimental station for potato breeding (Groß Lüsewitz)

    • References

    Julius Kühn-Institut Wikipedia
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