Research

The Eco-agriculture Research Center of Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the only Institute engaging in the spring wheat breeding in Chinese Academy of sciences. Since its establishment in 1966, the center has achieved fruitful results in breeding new spring wheat varieties with high-yield, drought resistance, and pest resistance. At the same time, the Center also gradually expanded the scope of the study, and carried out other economic crops and pastures breeding works.

The Center has produced 25 new varieties of spring wheat, for example, “Plateau 506”, “Plateau 338”, “Plateau 602”, “Plateau 448”, “Plateau 437”, and 5 new varieties of other crops. "Plateau 338" has created the world record of spring wheat high yield, 1013.05 kilograms per mu in the Chaidamu Basin in Qinghai. These varieties with drought resistance and high-yield have been planted in all spring wheat zones, about 20 million mu totally. “Plateau 448"with high yield, disease resistance, good quality has become main variety grown in Qinghai Province, and promoted a new round of the replacement of spring wheat varieties in Qinghai and adjacent areas. In addition, the Center introduced and breed sunflower varieties ”meikui 562”, “shikui H4”, “meichangkui 766”, co-operating with other units.

The breeding and promotion of “Plateau 602” have won the first prize of Qinghai Scientific and Technological Advance Award, the second prize of Gansu S&T Advance Award, the third prize of National S&T Advance Award.

In addition of breeding new crop and forage varieties, the center also focus on Plant molecular biology and transgene research, High-yield physiological and ecological studies. About 200 articles and 8 books have been published.