Julius Gotthelf Kühn (23 October 1825 – 14 April 1910) was a German academic and agronomist and he was one of the pioneers of plant pathology . Kuhn's father was a land owner and he gained experience in agriculture and botany on his father's land. He was trained in Bonn , starting at age 30 and was awarded his doctorate, which focused on diseases of beet and canola at Leipzig . In 1862, he became a professor of agriculture at the University of Halle . Kuhn published more than 70 papers on mycology and plant pathology over the course of his career.
3-573: 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. Its objectives, mission and research scope were determined by section 11, paragraph 57 of the 1987 Federal Law on the Protection of Cultivated Plants as subsequently amended. The JKI
6-580: Is headed by breeding researcher Frank Ordon. He succeeded the horticultural and phytomedical scientist Georg F. Backhaus, who had previously been head of the Federal Biological Institute in Berlin and Braunschweig since 2002. Julius K%C3%BChn One of his seminar papers was the 1858 publication "Die Krankheiten der Kulturgewächse". He was honoured in 1898, when botanist Paul Wilhelm Magnus circumscribed Kuehneola , which
9-583: Was named after the German agricultural scientist Julius Kühn (1825–1910). It was formed in January 2008 when three research centres in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture merged: It has its main office at Quedlinburg and centres at Berlin , Braunschweig , Darmstadt , Dossenheim , Dresden-Pillnitz , Elsdorf , Groß Lüsewitz , Kleinmachnow , Münster and Siebeldingen . The facility
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