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Institute for National and International Plant Health (JKI-AG)
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)
Coordinated projects
- Action program Ambrosia
- An International Plant Sentinel Network as an early-warning system; research on future pest threats
- Analysis of phytosanitary and seed regulation barriers to the export of plants and plant products and solutions taking account of export wishes of companies and of international standards
- Assessment of secondary raw material and wastes (for instance from potato processing) addressing risks for plant health
- Carrying out and participation in PRA and pest risk assessment for the introduction and spreading of harmful organisms taking into account regional (EPPO) and international (FAO/IPPC) plant health standards (for Germany and on EU and international level)
- Co-ordination of procedures for pest risk analyses for various groups of harmful organisms; including impacts on biodiversity
- Co-ordination of surveys on the occurrence of quarantine and new harmful organisms in Germany and reporting on the occurrence, distribution and control measures
- Collaborative project: Proactive phytosanitary risk analysis through modelling and monitoring: Adaptation to long-term risks caused by climate sensitive plant pests - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Remote Sensing and management of invasive alien plants on agricultural areas to safeguard the productivity
- Comparative laboratory tests to detect and identify relevant and hardly detectable quarantine organisms
- Continuation and extension of phytosanitary ERA net on purposeful orientation and coordination of phytosanitary research
- Control of pests and pathogens affecting fruit crops
- Coordination of the multiannual national control plan (MNKP) for plant health according to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004
- Damage potential of spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) and development of risk management and control measures (DROSKII)
- Databases for the notification of interceptions of consignments of plants, plant products and other objects from EU Member States and EU Third Countries, on the occurrence of quarantine organisms and on the import and export of products relevant to quarantine
- Determination of the pest status of Tilletia controversa
- Development and harmonization of methods for diagnosis, of regulated plant pathogenic pests
- Development and testing of practicable procedures for inactivation and detection of potato wart disease causing fungus Synchytrium endobioticum in solid and liquid soil) residues
- Development of alternative methods for substitution of the use of methyl bromide for the control of quarantine relevant nematodes in trade wood including wood packaging (e.g. pine wood nematode)
- Development of an improved risk analysis for quarantine organisms on the example of the pine wood nematode
- Development of appropriated measures and methods to close pathways for the distribution of potato cyst nematods and beet cyst eelworms
- Development of specific fundamentals for plant health measures and regulations against quarantine organisms
- Diagnosis of wood-inhabiting regulated harmful organisms exemplified on the Asian Long horned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis, Cerambicidae) based on feeding traces and gnaw shavings with the aim to reduce felling of trees in outbreak areas as much as possible
- Dickeya - Dickeya species in potato and flower bulbs risks and management strategies
- Elaboration and assessment of international phytosanitary standards within the IPPC and EPPO
- Elaboration of statements to inform and provide expert advice to the BMEL, and where necessary, recommendation of plant health regulations and measures in Germany, on EU level and referring to Third Countries.
- Entrusting support tasks in the area of Plant health - Scientific and technical assistance on survey guidelines relevant for plant health for the EU territory
- Establishing the basis for an international plant sentinel Network as an early-warning System for future pest threats
- Evaluation of pest risk analyzes and import requirements of target countries
- Further Risk Management fort the EC listed Anoplophora Species, A. chinensis and A. glabripennis
- German Compendium for phytosanitary inspections of plants and plant products
- HALT-AMBROSIA - Complex research on methods to halt the Ambrosia invasion in Europe
- Implementation of TRACES in Germany and electronic certification of imports and exports of plants and plant products
- Import monitoring of cut foliage from non-European countries regarding potentially plant pathogenic fungi - risk assessment in relation to the main groups of fungi and finds
- Improvement of an internet information and consultation system on phytosanitary import regulations of Germany, the EU and non-EU countries
- Influence of temperatere and distribution of nematodes on population dynamics and demage
- Information by the EU Commission, the EU Member States, EPPO (European and Mediterraneaen Plant Protection Organization) and the official plant health services on the occurrence of quarantine organisms and new organisms in Germany and on intercepted consignments (alert system)
- International Year of Plant Health in 2020
- Investigation of the influence of climate change on populations of harmful organisms (pathotypes/virulence groups)
- Participation in plant health and quality expert groups of the Commission and Council
- Preparation of and participation in inspection missions Of the EC Food and Veterinary Office in Germany and participation in inspection journeys in other countries, expert groups of EFSA and EPPO
- PRIMA PHACIE:Pest risk assessment for the European Community plant health: A comparative approach with case studies
- Representation of the German delegation in the Standing Committees on Plant Health and on propagating material of fruitplants and ornamentals Plants of the EU-Commission
- Risk analysis and elaboration of phytosanitary standards against invasive alien species (quarantine organisms with special importance for biodiversity)
- Risk reduction and risk assessment of invasive plant species
- Studies on the biology of potato cyst nematodes (Globodera spp.) under Nordic conditions for improving management and regulation
Involved in research projects
- Collaborative project: Management of resistant Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus): Monitoring and strategy development into the prevention of rodent-associated diseases - subproject 1
- Development of a sustainable management system to control the carrot psyllid in organic crop production
- Economic Effects of the dispersal of Anoplophora glabriennis in the City of Bonn
- Enterotoxin expression of Bacillus thuringiensis strains used as pesticides and biocidal products
- Further development, update und quality management of online-database 'KLIMAPS JKI' with important facts of the consequences of climate change on plant protection. (KLIMAPS)
- Klimaeinflüsse auf die epidemische Entwicklung von Pathogenen im Mais Development and adverse effects of animal pests of sugar beet
- Molecular differenciation of populations of plant-parasitic nematodes by sequence variation of pathogenicity genes
- Sustainable Management of Ambrosia artemisiifolia in Europe
Contact
Institute for National and International Plant Health
(JKI-AG)
Messeweg 11/12
38104 Braunschweig
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 (531) 2 99-33 71
Fax: +49 (531) 2 99-30 07
Email: ag(@)julius-kuehn.de
