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年的波蘭科學院植物遺傳學研究所，下設波蘭遺傳學與育種雜志。1995年更名為《應用遺傳學雜志》(JAG)。自2011年以來，《應用遺傳學雜志》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和基因組學的應用方面。