热带稻种保护与遗传改良研究组致力于热带稻种（野生稻、栽培稻地方品种）资源的收集、保护与评价利用，发掘热带稻种适应于极端环境的优良性状，遗传及分子生物学解析热带稻种重要环境适应性基因或分子模块，利用分子育种开展水、陆稻的遗传改良研究。

主要研究方向为：

（1）热带稻种（野生稻、栽培稻地方品种）重要基因发掘与新种质创制；

（2）陆稻陆生适应性与进化的分子机制；

（3）陆稻、野生稻等特异的新株型分子解析；

（4）稻作分子育种；

（5）作物营养品质。

Germplasm Preservation and Genetic Improvement of Tropical Rice (GPGITR) is mainly dedicated to the collection, protection, evaluation and utilization of tropical rice germplasms, including wild rice and cultivated rice. We aim to explore the excellent traits of tropical rice adapted to extreme environments and elucidate the genetic and molecular mechanisms of key genes or molecular modules from tropical rice, thus genetically improving lowland rice and upland rice breeding.

Our main research interests are as follows:

(1) Dissection of the important genes and cultivation of new germplasm of tropical rice germplasms, including wild rice, cultivated rice, and landrace;

(2) Underlying molecular mechanism of upland rice adaptation to terrestrial environment;

(3) Molecular analysis of regulatory network for specific new plant architecture in upland rice and wild rice;

(4) Molecular breeding for rice crops;

(5) Crop nutrition and quality.