Established on Oct. 1, 2005, the Laboratory of Natural Products Pesticide (LNPP), Southwest University (SWU), is a comprehensive scientific and educational research institute and one of the important cultivation platforms for graduate students in SWU. Prof. Ding Wei is the Director of LNPP. In order to achieve the target of constructing the laboratory as “cultivation platform for high-level innovative students and research and development center for advanced industrial technology”, we are actively studying the domestic and foreign advanced technologies, expanding research subjects since the establishment of LNPP.

Focusing on the objectives of “creating new botanical pesticides and developing green prevention and control technology”, we are engaged in the studies on Mites and Acaricide, the biological and ecological study on Rastonia solanacearum, and the study on microecological process and regulation mechanism of rhizosphere, which cover the fields of tracking, structure modification, mechanism research of natural active compounds and preparation pesticides, and the comprehensive prevention and control of harmful pests and diseases.

The LNPP has already cultivated about 3 Post-doctors, 11 Doctors, and 70 Masters. Now the team member is about 50, including four teachers and seven Doctors. It has established experiment platforms for separation, preparation processing, biometrics, microecological research, Myzus persicae and Aphidius avenae breeding, national pharmacodynamics test, and built three indoor culture room, three green houses, and a testing ground.

The Programs that the LNPP currently undertakes include the NSFC Programs, Major Projects from China National Tobacco Corporation and Chongqing Tobacco Corporation, and cooperation projects with many enterprises. In addition, the group has successively established the international cooperation and exchange relationships with INRA (France), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübinge (Germany), NIOO-KNAW (Holland), Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya (Thailand), Auburn University (U.S.A.).

The LNPP has been published 12 works and more than 300 academic papers, and acquired 12 national patents and 3 prizes of national college students Challenge Cup. Meanwhile, it has built the “Pests and Diseases Warning System for Tobacco” and put into use. The research achievements has won the Science and Technology Progress Awards of the Ministry of Agriculture, Chongqing Municipality and National Tobacco Corporation.