To Understand How Plants Adapt To Abiotic Stresses Such As Drought, Salt And Heat, And How They Interact With Microbes With Basic Research, And Translate The Research Into Agricultural Applications;

To Identify Useful Functional Genes And Effective DNA Markers, For Generating Prototypes Of New Adaptive Soybean Varieties By Either Transgenesis Or Marker-Assisted Breeding;

To Produce High-Quality Publications That Will Make Significant Advancements In The Understanding Of Plant-Environment Interactions;

To Establish A Platform To Disseminate Genomic Information To Researchers And Breeders;

To Train Up Talents As Plant Genomics And Molecular Biology Experts.