1.Introduction: Tropical Food Crop Research Center(TFCRC) was established in December 2011, The main research tasks include: collection and conservation, identification and utilization of rice genetic resources with tropical characteristics, breeding of new varieties of tropical upland rice and salt tolerant rice, and also the research on related production technologies. TFCRC has set up a comprehensive experiment base with an area of about 4 hectares, and greenhouses, field laboratories and a tropical rice germplasm bank with low temperature and low humidity in Danzhou of Hainan Province. By ..

Plant Variety Testing Laboratory is a public welfare department specializing in DUS testing of plant varieties and seed quality assessment. It is responsible for the operation and maintenance of two platforms belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, namely, the Tropical Crop Seed and Seedling Quality Supervision, Danzhou Sub-Center for DUS Testing of New Varieties of Plants.The research office has 29 members, including 2 part-time leaders and 16 auxiliary staff. Seven have advanced titles and three have doctorates.The honors included: Hainan High-level Talents (3 persons),..

Established in 2020, aimed to developing the techniques of genomics, gene mining and biotechnology appliance for tropical crops, the center currently undertake several tasks including the national high technology research and development program of China, the major science and technology plan of Hainan province and national natural science foundation of China.

Tropical crops cultivation is constituted with four common teams (soil management team, growth regulator application research team, cultivation research facilities team, agricultural wisdom team) and five professional teams (flower cultivation team, fruit cultivation team, south medicine cultivation team, cassava cultivation team, green manure and forage cultivation team). Researching on high-yield, high-quality and efficient cultivation technology of tropical crops, standardization of field production technology, local industrial cultivation bottlenecks, and scientific and technological..

The Research Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, formerly known as the Tissue Culture Laboratory, was established in 1998. It currently consists of three province- or ministry-level platforms including the National Gene Bank of Tropical Crops (Medium-term Bank), the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs for the Biology and Cultivation of Chinese Medicinal plants, and the Key Laboratory of Hainan Province for the Genetic Improvement and Innovation of Tropical Crops. The center currently has 22 employees (13 of them are auxiliary staff), including 3 with senior..

The Tropical Flower Research Center focuses on the predominant tropical flowers in Hainan province. Which includes tropical orchid, bougainvillea, anthurium, tropical aquatic flowers, tropical bulb flowers and perennial flowers, etc. A series of important achievements have been made in flower germplasm resource collection, variety breeding, technological innovation, theoretical research, flower industrial development, variety or technical demonstration and promotion, etc. That made outstanding contributions to the development of the tropical flower industry. We set up science research..

Cassava Research Center (CRC) is a professional team, engaged in the cassava germplasm collection, preservation, identification, evaluation, genome, proteome, and biological breeding, focused on nutrition regulation, efficient cultivation, postharvest treatment, food processing and comprehensive utilization, not only on the technologies, but also for the promotion and application. CRC has National Cassava Germplasm Repository, National R&D Centre For Patato Processing, Key laboratory of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs for Cassava Germplasm Resources Conservation and Utilization,..

Vegetable Research Center established in 1994 with 28 professional employees, including 12 senior scientists and 9 doctors. One employee was awarded ‘Nanhai Famous Scholar’ of Hainan province, ‘515 Talent Project’, and ‘Leading Talent’ of Hainan province. Moreover, 4 and 14 employees were awarded as ‘Top talent of Hainan province’ and ‘High-level talent of Hainan province’ respectively. The center won the honorary title of ‘National Advanced Group in agriculture’. The Tropical Vegetable Industry Technology Innovation team of Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences was..

The Tropical Pasture Research Center started from the Green Manure and Forage Research Group in the 1960s. Based on the needs of grassland development in domestic and world tropical regions, the Center carried out the research on tropical forage germplasm resources and innovative utilization. Guided by industrial needs, the Center focused on research and development work such as collection and preservation of forage, green manure and turfgrass germplasm resources, cultivation of elite varieties, integration of cultivation and utilization technology, meet the needs of healthy and stable..

The Germplasm Resources Evaluation and Information Research Laboratory (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Lab’) engages in research concerning information, as well as phenotype and genotype identification of tropical crop germplasm resources. It has successively undertaken projects such as the construction of National Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platform of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the protection of tropical crop germplasm resources of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, major information operation and maintenance projects, provincial key research..

The Southern Medicine and Health Research Center (SMHRC) was established in 2003. The SMHRC consists of five provincial and ministerial platforms: Danzhou Germplasm Resource Nursery of Tropical Medicinal Plants of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Key Laboratory of Biology and Cultivation of Herb Medicine (Haikou), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Hainan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Tropical medicinal plants, etc. At present, the SMHRC has 34 members (including 14 scientific research assistants), among which 11 members have senior professional..