Recently, the general office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced the list of key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (jointly built by the Ministry and the province), and Ningbo University’s “Key Laboratory of Green Marine Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (jointly built by the Ministry and the province)” was on the list. This is the second key laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs approved by the school after the Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (subject group), and it is also the first key laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
The Key Laboratory of Green Marine Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (jointly built by the Ministry and the province) relies on the construction of the College of Oceanography of Ningbo University. The laboratory has 45 fixed personnel and has formed an innovative team with reasonable echelon, strong innovation ability and strong academic influence. Based on the industrial development needs of China, Zhejiang and Ningbo, the laboratory focuses on three aspects: excellent varieties of important mariculture animals and plants in the East China Sea, detection and bioremediation technology of typical pathogenic bacteria and pollutants in mariculture, and breeding of green aquaculture technology in seawater pond ecosystem, and strives for breakthroughs in germplasm resources, environmental monitoring and green ecology through basic research, common key technologies and industrial transformation and application. Achieve a comprehensive breakthrough in mariculture from high-quality varieties-environmental monitoring-habitat restoration to the construction of green mariculture ecosystem, and serve the major national strategies and local industrial needs. In order to further improve the key laboratory system of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, promote the organic connection between the national and local scientific and technological innovation platforms, promote the rational layout of innovation platforms at different levels, and enhance the regional agricultural scientific and technological innovation capability, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has laid out and built a number of key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (jointly built by the Ministry and the province) in accordance with the principle of “jointly built by the Ministry and the province”. This year, a total of 80 key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs were selected (jointly built by the Ministry and the province), and 4 were approved in the province.
(Source: Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau)