Founded in 1960 at the Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, under the title Genetica Polonica, Polish Journal of Genetics and Breeding. In 1995, it was renamed Journal of Applied Genetics (JAG). Since 2011, the Journal of Applied Genetics has been published by Springer. It publishes peer-reviewed original papers, short communications (including case reports) and review articles focused on the research of applicative aspects of plant, human, animal and microbial genetics and genomics.

成立于1960年的波蘭科學(xué)院植物遺傳學(xué)研究所，下設(shè)波蘭遺傳學(xué)與育種雜志。1995年更名為《應(yīng)用遺傳學(xué)雜志》(JAG)。自2011年以來，《應(yīng)用遺傳學(xué)雜志》已由施普林格出版。它出版同行評議的原始論文，簡短的交流(包括案例報告)和綜述文章，重點研究植物、人類、動物和微生物遺傳學(xué)和基因組學(xué)的應(yīng)用方面。