Christian Jung

Christian Jung (born 17 September 1956, Northeim, Lower Saxony), is a plant geneticist and molecular biologist in the Plant Breeding Institute of Kiel University.

Career

After internships in agricultural companies in Germany and Canada Jung studied at the University of Göttingen with Hans Günter Schlegel, and in 1981 obtained a diploma on the basis of the "Detection of nitrogen fixation in two strains of the hydrogen bacterium Alcaligenes latus". Other notable work includes cloning the genome of quinoa, and the importance of controlling the time of flowering time in plant breeding.

Awards In 2005 Jung received the Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation.