Major Research Areas:

· Collection, conservation, evaluation, enhancement and utilization of crop germplasm resources;

·  Development, demonstration and dissemination of new varieties of main crops (wheat, maize, rice, soybean, etc.);

· Discovery, mapping, and cloning of important genes/QTLs, and development of new materials for both genetic and  breeding uses;

· Functional genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics in major crop;

· Crop physiology and new management techniques;

· Cereal quality supervision and testing.