Research platform
The Shandong Provincial Innovation Center for Vegetable Biological Breeding Technology is hosted by Huasheng Agricultural Group Co., Ltd. The center features an 8,000-square-meter modern office building, 10,000 square meters of intelligent greenhouses, 30,000 square meters of breeding sheds, and a demonstration base covering over 200 mu (approximately 13 hectares). It employs a research team of 56 professionals, including 8 with senior professional titles, 12 with intermediate titles, 5 doctoral candidates, and 20 master's students. Since its inception, the center has extensively collected vegetable germplasm resources; it currently holds over 10,000 germplasm samples across 16 categories of vegetable crops, including radish, Chinese cabbage, zucchini, watermelon, cucumber, and chili pepper. The center has developed more than 300 superior new vegetable varieties with independent intellectual property rights. Of these, 7 have passed provincial-level validation, 52 have been granted national plant new variety protection, and 51 have been registered as non-major crop varieties. Its technologies for zucchini hybrid breeding, chili pepper "three-line" breeding, and cruciferous male-sterile line breeding have reached an advanced international level.?
