The leading scientist is Liping Xu (Research Fellow). The team is built on Crop Science and based on the Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding the Agriculture Ministry, State R&D Center for Sugar Industrial Technology, and Sugarcane Sector of National Center on Sugar-yielding Crop Improvements. Major fields of research are biology and genetic breeding on sugarcane, applied sugarcane genomics and molecular breeding, pathogen biology and breeding for disease resistance, gene exploration, and improvements by genetic modification.