Integrated Past Management (IPM)

l Research on agricultural pest biology and ecology l Integrated pest management for major crops, e.g. rice , wheat, soybean , vegetables.

Research on cotton disease resistance breeding Recently , cotton verticillium wilt epidemics have caused a serious loss of cotton production and has become a major bottleneck of cotton production in China . Research at the Institute of Plant Production in China . Research at the Institute of Plant Protection mainly focuses on: screening and creation of resistant germplasm material to vertillium wilt breeding for new resistant germplasm material to vertillium wilt breeding for new resistant varieties and techniques of controlling cotton verticillium wilt with growth regulators. Several new varieties resistant to verticillium wilt , have been successfully developed.

Research on interactions between natural enemies and pests.

Introduction of biological control agents.

Biological control control in soybean cyst nematode.

Development of bio-pesticides.