The Department managed the National Mid-term Genebank of Vegetable Germplasm Resources. It focuses on exploration, collection, propagation, conservation and evaluation of domestic and exotic vegetable germplasm resources, the long term observation of stability for vegetable germplasm, and research of origin, evolution and classification of ve…
The department consists of three groups: cabbage & broccoli breeding group, Chinese cabbage breeding group and spinach breeding group. It focuses on germplasm innovation and new variety development in cabbage, Chinese cabbage, broccoli and spinach, etc.; High-efficiency breeding techniques, such as male sterility, microspore culture; genetics and…
The department consist 3 research groups of genetic breeding of tomato(S. lycopersicum), pepper (Capsicum spp.), and eggplant (Solanummelongena). They engage in the discovery of genetics and mechanism on important agronomic characters, such as fruit quality, disease and stress resistance to improve crop yield, quality and resistance to abiotic and b…
The department is divided into four breeding groups including cucumber, melon, squash and watermelon. We focus on cucurbit vegetable crops germplasm collection, preservation and evaluation; genetic analysis and candidate gene mining of disease resistance, stress tolerance and quality related traits; functional molecular marker development of t…
The department focuses on collection and evaluation of potato germplasm, development of integrated breeding technology and new variety, establishment of seed-tuber multiplication and crop management technology. For decades, the department has collected and preserved over 3000 germplasm resources, bred 31 varieties with high yield, high quality an…
The department consists of 4 research groups, including Large-scale Vegetable Seedling Raising Group, Protected Vegetable Cultivation Group, Vegetable Soilless Cultivation Group, and Vegetable Postharvest Technology Group. The research mainly focuses on (1) development of technologies for large-scale raising of vegetable seedlings, (2) physiolog…
The department consists of 3 research groups of vegetable diseases, pest control and integrated disease management. It focuses on pathogen functional genomics, differentiation of physiological strains and pathogenesis mechanism of predominant pathogens and insect pests on vegetable and flower crops. Explore and application of insect and disea…
The Department contains 3 research groups of functional genomics, molecular genetics and molecular quality improvement. It focuses on genomics and important functional genes of vegetable crops, it also explore the genomic - based molecular design breeding techniques and methods. They develops the whole genome sequence map of vegetables such as c…
It focuses on the collection, conservation and evaluation of important flower germplasm resources originated in China. The genetics and molecular mechanisms of the traits such as flower blooming, color, fragrance, disease resistance, stress tolerance in the important flower crops. Exploration of molecular markers assisted for breeding, and gene…
The laboratory principally engaged in the quality and safety testing techniques and risk assessment researches on vegetables, fruits, edible fungi and their products, advanced technologies on plant new varieties testing, relevant standards development, revision and validation, also the morphology, quality and safety testing for new varieties a…