The team mainly focuses on rice virus diseases, including rice stripe leaf blight, rice black-streaked dwarf disease, southern rice black-streaked dwarf disease, etc.

Relying on research platforms such as  Jiangsu Provincial Plant Virus Disease Diagnostic and Testing Service Center, Jiangsu National Rice, Wheat and Cotton Variety Certification and Identification Station, and JAAS-IRRI Joint Laboratory, the research areas of the team include high-efficiency and accurate identification technology, discovery and identification of resistance resources and creation of new materials, resistance gene identification and breeding utilization, analysis of host resistance mechanism, etc.

The team has formulated 3 relevant national industry standards, 5 local standards, 17 authorized invention patents, and published more than 40 papers in well-known international journals such as Molecular Plant Pathology, Phytopathology, Rice, Frontiers in Microbiology, etc.