CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science (CEMPS)/Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was established by the integration of the former Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology (SIPP) and Shanghai Institute of Entomology (SIE) on May 19th, 1999. More recently the Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology (PSC) was also incorporated in CEMPS.
The mission of CEMPS is to generate knowledge of plants, microbes and insects through creative research, to train scientists for the future, and to benefit the sustainable agriculture, ecological environments, bio-energy and bio-manufacturing requirements in China. Our research topics include, if not all, functional genomics and physiology, synthetic biology, developmental and evolutionary biology, and biotechnologies by using plants, microbes and insects as model organisms.
