Microbial pesticides and fertilizers are important substitutes for chemical products, and they have become more and more demanding in market after 2015, when the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China promulgated the national policy of "reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides".

On October 21, 2020, deputy director FANG Yunting and deputy director ZHUO Junchen of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Han Ying, general manager of Inner Mongolia Duorina Selenium-Tech Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

A Chinese proverb says: when the wind of change blows, some build walls, but some build windmills. Corona blows a strong wind to life in academia, for which communication and exchange of ideas is an essential backbone.

It took 13 years for the IAE researchers to obtain the three new varieties. In 2006, the researchers started screening and breeding new varieties of Lilac.

On October 10, 2020, the on-site meeting of the "Research and Demonstration of Comprehensive Utilization of Fungus Chaff," a Regional Key Project of the Science and Technology Service Network Initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (STS) which is undertaken by scientists of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was held in Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County.

On September 29, 2020, "Key Technologies and Products R&D for Biodegradation of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals (no. 2017YFD0800702)," the 2nd project of the National Key Research and Development Program "Farmland Toxic and Hazardous Chemical/Biological Pollution Prevention and Control Technology and Product R&D" Held an on-site acceptance meeting at a demonstration field designed to study the microbial degradation of typical pesticides (Atrazine, metsulfuron-methyl and tribenuron-methyl) in Xingshan Village, Zhangwu County, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province.

Yang Kai, a research scientist at the station, gave a talk on the "productivity decline mechanism and improvement strategy of Larch (Larix spp.) plantations."

From the beginning of September, the corn in Northeast China has gradually entered the mature period, and corn farmers are preparing for harvest. In this harvest season, Zhang Xudong, head of the conservation tillage team at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, also harvested the fruit of his scientific research.

Directly use the no-tillage seeding-machine to sow, instead of cleaning up the straw and preparing the soil — this is the 'conservation tillage with straw mulching' technology. Prof. Zhang Xudong, a research scientist from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences said: "conservation tillage technology is a modern farming technology system based on crop straw mulching and no-till sowing,

From October 11th to 13th, 2020, the annual conference of China Botanical Gardens was held in Shenyang, Liaoning, with an aim of discussing functions and social responsibility of botanical gardens and promoting the long-term development of botanical gardens in China.