Water scarcity, global warming and topsoil depletion are among the major factors hampering sustainable agriculture and food security. The Centre for Genomic Studies on Plant-Environment Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (The Center) comprises of a strong team of local, mainland and international researchers from notable institutes, who is committed to investigating the underlying mechanisms of plant-environment interactions and developing new plant and agricultural technology to strike a better balance between sustainable agriculture and food security, by answering a central question: “How do plants interact with their environment?”