Julius Kühn Institute

Julius Kühn Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants (JKI)
position	Federal research institute
Supervisory authority	Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
founding	January 1, 2008
Headquarters	Quedlinburg
Authority management	Frank Ordon , President
Servants	1,200
Web presence	www.julius-kuehn.de

The Julius Kühn Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants ( JKI ), officially spelled as the Julius Kühn Institute , is a research institution created in the division of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) on the basis of the law on the reorganization of departmental research of October 24, 2007 and is part of it independent higher federal authority . Its tasks are determined in particular by the Plant Protection Act , the purposes of which also form the framework of its research assignment .

In the institute, which bears the name of the agricultural scientist Julius Kühn , the Federal Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry and the Federal Institute for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants are combined with the involvement of two institutes of the Federal Research Institute for Agriculture (Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science and Institute for Plant Cultivation and Grassland Management) . It is based in Quedlinburg and has several branches in Berlin , Braunschweig , Darmstadt , Dossenheim , Dresden , Elsdorf , Sanitz , Kleinmachnow , Münster and Siebeldingen .

New building of the Julius Kühn Institute in Quedlinburg

Julius Kühn , the namesake of the JKI

The JKI comprises the following institutes:

• Institute in Quedlinburg
  • Resistance research and stress tolerance , also in Groß Lüsewitz
  • Safety of biotechnological processes in plants
  • Breeding research on horticultural crops
  • Breeding research on agricultural crops, also in Groß Lüsewitz

• Institute in Braunschweig
  • Bee protection, also in Berlin
  • Application technology in crop protection
  • Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics
  • Crop production and soil science
  • national and international phytosanitary affairs
  • Plant protection in arable farming and grassland
  • Plant protection in horticulture and forestry

• Institutes in Berlin and Kleinmachnow
  • Bee protection, also in Braunschweig
  • Ecological chemistry, plant analysis and storage protection
  • Strategies and Impact Assessment

• Institutes at other locations
  • Biological plant protection in Darmstadt
  • Breeding research on agricultural crops, also in Quedlinburg
  • Plant protection in fruit and wine growing in Dossenheim and Siebeldingen
  • Institute for grapevine breeding Geilweilerhof in Siebeldingen
  • Breeding research on fruit in Dresden- Pillnitz with the coordination office of the German fruit genebank
  • Horticulture and forestry - vertebrate research - in Münster

Management and other personalities

The facility is headed by breeding researcher Frank Ordon. He succeeded the horticultural scientist and phytomedicist Georg F. Backhaus , who had been the head of the Federal Biological Institute in Berlin and Braunschweig since 2002 .

Well-known personalities of the Julius Kühn Institute:

• Georg F. Backhaus (* 1955), agricultural scientist
• Heinz Butin (* 1928), phytopathologist and forest scientist
• Wolf Dieter Englert (* 1942), entomologist
• Falko Feldmann (* 1959), biologist and phytomedicist
• Gregor Hagedorn (* 1965), botanist
• Johannes Hallmann (* 1964), agricultural scientist and phytomedicist
• Andreas Hensel (* 1961), veterinarian, microbiologist and hygienist
• Johannes A. Jehle (* 1961), biologist, insect virologist and phytomedicist
• Peter Morio (1887–1960), agronomist and grapevine grower
• Frank Ordon (* 1963), agricultural scientist
• Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural scientist, university professor and researcher
• Kornelia Smalla (* 1956), chemist and biotechnologist
• Hermann Stegemann (1923–2018), Professor of Biochemistry
• Rolf Tippkötter (* 1946), soil scientist

Web links

• Website of the Julius Kühn Institute with links to the participating institutions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Imprint
2. ↑ Section 57 of the Plant Protection Act
3. ↑ New JKI President Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon
4. ^ PW Wohlers: New President of the Biological Federal Institute: Georg F. Backhaus. Science Information Service, September 3, 2002, accessed on March 6, 2017 . 
5. ^ JKI: Head. Julius Kühn Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, accessed on March 6, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 37 ″  E