Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius Kühn-Institut
The federal research centres of the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) have been re-organised.
The three research centres which dealt with plants were merged at January 1st 2008. Its new name is: Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius Kühn-Institut. We do research into everything concerning cultivated plants.
It will be some time until a new website has been completed. You find the website of the former Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) on this site, the site of the new Research Centre. The website of the Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants (BAZ) is still available. So is the website of the two institutes of the Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL) which joined us: the Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science and the Institute of Crop and Grassland Science.
Our second name was chosen to honour one of the earliest German scientists on agriculture who had specialized on phytomedicine: Julius Kühn. He did research into many fields of agriculture. Julius Kühn lived from 1825 until 1910. He was professor at the University of Halle, not far from Quedlinburg where the headquarters of the Julius Kühn-Institut is located. And he was on the scientific board of the Imperial Biological Research Centre, one of the predecessors of the new Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants.
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