1. Germplasm resources and new variety selection & breeding of featured industrial crops such as peanuts, Stevia rebaudiana and Trichosanthes kirilowi.

2. Physiology, ecology and high-efficient cultivation models of featured industrial crops such as peanuts, Stevia rebaudiana and Trichosanthes kirilowi.

3. Gene research related to active ingredients of featured industrial crops such as peanuts, Stevia rebaudiana and Trichosanthes kirilowi.

International Cooperation:

In 2017, the lab invited Rajeev K. Varshney, academician of India Academy of Sciences, also the scholar from the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics to visit and communicate. The cooperation intention for jointly applying research project and peanut genomic research was proposed; under the support of China's National Educational, Scientific, Cultural and Health Key Talent Introduction Project and Jiangsu Foreign Experts Program, the lab conducted four-year collaboration with Professor Marian Brestic from University of South Dakota. Currently, the lab is conducting research on the effects of nano-fertilizer, nano-metal and their oxides on stevia’s phenotype, metabolic pathways and glycoside content; through the JAAS funded overseas academic exchange, the lab has formed a continuous and good cooperation intention with the Joshua Yuan Laboratory and the Ping He Laboratory of the Texas A&M University, and the University of Florida.