Dr. Janina Braatz received the Faculty Award of the  Faculty of Agriculture and Nutrition from the President of the CAU. The title of her dissertation was  „Production of oilseed rape with increased seed shattering resistance.“ She was a PhD student of the faculty from 2012 – 2017.  
Pictures of the award ceremony  

Foto/Copyright: C. Eulitz, CAU Kiel

Since its online publication on November 12, 2009, there has been a total of 88,002 chapter downloads for the book "Genetic Modification of Plants Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry" (F. Kempken, C. Jung, Eds.) . This means the book was one of the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in the relevant eBook Collection in 2017. Further information can be found on its homepage: https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783642023903#otherversion=9783642023910

From March 14-16, 2018 the III. International Symposium for Genetic Variation of Flowering Time Genes and Applications for Crop Improvement took place at the Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel. The conference in frame of the DFG 1530 priority program (SPP1530) was organized by the program coordinator Prof. Christian Jung.

Foto/Copyright: M. Bruisch, Uni Kiel

Neuer Schutz vor verbreiteter Zuckerrüben-Krankheit
Forschungsteam unter Leitung der Universität Kiel entdeckt Resistenzgen zur Sicherung landwirtschaftlicher Erträge

Neue Züchtungstechniken für höhere Rapserträge
Kieler Forschungsteam ermöglicht präzise Veränderung des Rapsgenoms durch „Genome Editing“
 

CRISPR-Cas modified rapeseed with improved pod shattering resistance

Foto/Copyright: J. Braatz, Uni Kiel