General Introduction of Research Center of Chinese Jujube

Research Center of Chinese Jujube (RCCJ), Agricultural University of Hebei (AUH) is a research center specialized in jujube, especially in jujube production, physiology, selecting and breeding, diseases and pests control. It has 8 full-time researchers, more than 30 PhD students and Master degree students, and 1 Ministerial and provincial key laboratory. International cooperation becomes more and more frequently with America , Japan , South Korea , Bulgaria , Australia , Slovenia etc.. Up to now, totally about 40 projects have been approved and research results total 28. More than 400 papers have been published in the last 10 years. The main research fields include:

Collection, evaluation of jujube and wild jujube germplasm

Selection and molecular assistant breeding of jujube and wild jujube

Cultivation and physiology

Origination and cultivation history of Chinese jujube

Disease and pests control

Storage and processing

Medical evaluation

Expert system of Chinese jujube