Julius Kühn-Institut Bundesanstalt für Kulturpflanzen (JKI) is the German Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants. It is named for German agricultural scientist Julius Kühn (1825–1910).

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

• Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA),
• Bundesanstalt für Züchtungsforschung
  Bundesanstalt für Züchtungsforschung
  Bundesanstalt für Züchtungsforschung an Kulturpflanzen was one of the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection research organization...
  
   (BAZ), including:
  • Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding
• Federal Agricultural Research Centre
  Federal Agricultural Research Centre
  The Federal Agricultural Research Center was a federal authority of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection...
  
   (FAL)
  • Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
  • Institute of Crop and Grassland Science

It has centres at Braunschweig

Braunschweig

Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....

 and Dahlem

Dahlem (Berlin)

Dahlem is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in southwestern Berlin. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a part of the former borough of Zehlendorf. Dahlem is one of the most affluent parts of the city and home to the main campus of the Free University of Berlin with the...

, and additional locations in Germany.

Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding

The Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding (Institut für Rebenzüchtung Geilweilerhof - IRZ) in Siebeldingen

Siebeldingen

Siebeldingen is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany....

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 specializes in breeding grape vine varieties that combine resistance to fungal diseases, frost, and drought with superior wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 qualities. It is part of a federal German agricultural research and breeding institute called Bundesanstalt für Züchtungsforschung an Kulturpflanzen. It developed the successful red Regent grape. It has experimental stations in Palatinate, Rheingau

Rheingau

The Rheingau is the hill country on the north side of the Rhine River between Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the western Taunus to the Rhine. It lies in the state of Hesse and is part of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis administrative district...

 and Franconia

Franconia

Franconia is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria, a small part of southern Thuringia, and a region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg called Tauberfranken...

 and maintains germplasm

Germplasm

A germplasm is a collection of genetic resources for an organism. For plants, the germplasm may be stored as a seed collection or, for trees, in a nursery.-See also:*Germ plasm, the germ cell determining zone...

 of over 15,000 varieties. It has published the journal Vitis since 1957 and administers the Vitis International Variety Catalogue

Vitis International Variety Catalogue

The Vitis International Variety Catalogue is a database of various species and varieties/cultivars of grapevine, the genus Vitis. VIVC is administered by the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding in Siebeldingen, Germany, and contains information from grapevine collections existing in...

, a database of grapevine species and varieties.

On 1 January 2008 it was fused with the Julius Kühn-Institut.

External links

• Website
• Julius Kühn Institute – Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, Key to Nature wiki