
AREA OF EXELLENCE SCHEME (7TH ROUND), RESEARCH GRANTS COUNCIL, HONG KONG SAR
CENTER FOR GENOMIC STUDIES ON PLANT-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD

Vision and Missions
Vision:
To Address The Environmental Challenges Posed To Agriculture With Scientific Researches, And Ultimately Achieve Sustainable Agriculture And Global Food Security, To Create A Better Livelihood For All Humankind.
Missions:
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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;
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To Identify Useful Functional Genes And Effective DNA Markers, For Generating Prototypes Of New Adaptive Soybean Varieties By Either Transgenesis Or Marker-Assisted Breeding;
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To Produce High-Quality Publications That Will Make Significant Advancements In The Understanding Of Plant-Environment Interactions;
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To Establish A Platform To Disseminate Genomic Information To Researchers And Breeders;
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To Train Up Talents As Plant Genomics And Molecular Biology Experts.