The mission of this Laboratory is to improve the end use quality, resistance to biotic and abiotic stress and yield of crops by biotechnology, to develop crop functional genomics, and to establish an international training centre for young scientists in the areas of plant biotechnology and plant science in Wuhan, China between Institutions in China and the UK.

The scientific goals of the Joint Laboratory are to improve Chinese wheat quality and to increase the yield (reduce loss caused by disease) by genetic engineering. In the longer term the Laboratory will develop wheat functional genomics. The Laboratory will provide high quality fundamental and applied science in the above-mentioned subjects, will develop internationally funded and nationally competitive research programs, and will publish the results in the international scientific literature.