从园艺系到园艺园林学院
西南大学园艺园林学院的前身是 1950 年成立的西南农学院园艺系，是学校最早设立和建设的骨干院系之一。1985 年学校更名为西南农业大学，园艺系随之改名；2002 年组建西南农业大学园艺园林学院；2005 年 7 月，西南农业大学与西南师范大学合并组建西南大学，学院定为现在的名字。学院的园艺本科办学历史可以追到 1950 年设置的果蔬专业，早先按果树、蔬菜两个方向分别招生，1995 年合并调整为园艺专业；风景园林方向的本科教育则始于 1984 年。学院现在位于重庆市北碚区，教学和科研都在西南大学校园里展开。
三个系与学位授权体系
学院下设园艺、风景园林、植物三个系，有园艺、园林、风景园林三个本科专业。其中园艺学是首批国家一流专业，也是国家级特色专业；园林为国家一流专业；风景园林为重庆市一流专业。学位授权方面，学院有园艺学一级学科博士后流动站和博士学位授权点，风景园林专业博士授权点，果树学、蔬菜学、观赏园艺学三个二级学科博士点，果树学、蔬菜学、观赏园艺学、植物学、细胞生物学、微生物学六个二级学科硕士点，以及风景园林硕士、农业硕士两个专业硕士点。果树学是国家重点（培育）学科，果树学、蔬菜学、园林植物与观赏园艺是重庆市重点学科。园艺学科围绕园艺植物种质资源发掘与利用、育种技术开发与应用、高效栽培与绿色生产、产品品质营养调控与应用四个方向培养研究生；风景园林学科办学四十余年，为重庆市“十四五”重点学科，下设风景园林规划设计与历史理论、风景园林植物应用与生态、风景园林建筑与工程、风景园林植物培育、设计基础五个教研室。
师资队伍与科研平台
学院现有在岗教职工 117 人，其中教授、研究员 26 人，副教授、副研究员等副高级职称 36 人，国务院政府特殊津贴专家 1 人，重庆市学术技术带头人 3 人；在读本科生、硕士生、博士生和博士后共 1700 余人。园艺系有教职工 38 人，含教授 10 人、副教授 19 人、博士生导师 4 人、硕士生导师 23 人。风景园林系有在职教职工 54 人，硕博学历占 92.5%，有境外学习或工作经历的超过一半，全职教授 11 人。学院建有南方山地园艺学教育部重点实验室，农业部魔芋研究中心，重庆市花卉工程技术研究中心，重庆市枇杷工程技术研究中心，重庆市农业综合开发科技推广中心，重庆高校蔬菜学、果树学重点实验室，重庆高校魔芋资源利用工程研究中心，西南大学园林景观规划设计研究院等 10 余个省部级和校级平台，组成十字花科蔬菜遗传育种、魔芋资源评价与高效栽培、特色水果品质生物学、园艺植物品质调控与生物育种、国土景观保护与生态修复、风景园林规划与设计、风景园林植物与应用、可持续人居环境与工程技术 8 个科研团队。学院有校内教学及科研实验农场 2 个，校外实践教学基地 20 余处，其中包括全国示范性风景园林专业学位研究生联合培养基地；风景园林系另建有实验室 22 间。
科研成果与国际交流
近十年，学院承担“863”计划、“973”项目、国家自然科学基金以及省部级和横向项目 1080 多项，总经费近 1.82 亿元；发表学术论文 711 篇，出版专著、教材及科普读物 19 册；获国家科技进步二等奖和省部级以上科研成果 7 项，培育新品种 23 个，授权植物新品种 6 个，获发明专利 28 项，省部级以上规划设计作品奖 30 余项。园艺学科在“十四五”期间新增国家级项目 30 余项，在 Nature Communications、Microbiome、Plant Journal、Plant Physiology 等期刊发表论文，新增国家级一流本科课程 1 门、省部级一流课程 6 门，出版教材 5 部、著作 2 部，制定标准 1 个；选育的“西园四号”甘蓝连续两年入选农业农村部主推品种，1 项技术入选重庆市主推技术，主导获重庆市科技进步奖一等奖 1 项。国际交流方面，学院与美国、澳大利亚、日本、荷兰、意大利、瑞典、法国等 20 余个国家或地区的高校和科研机构开展合作，与美国科罗拉多州立大学合办“2+2”本科联合培养项目，与英国诺丁汉特伦特大学合办“3+1”项目；风景园林学科还承担日本、越南、泰国、印度、巴基斯坦等国留学生的培养任务。
院训精神与社会服务
学院院训是“法自然，公天下”，取“法”于“自然”、以“天下”为“公”，说的是遵循自然规律，服务国家和社会。学院精神为“思想为先、实践为上、博学求精、厚德载物”，学校层面讲“特立西南、学行天下”。社会服务方面，学院设有科普中心和培训中心，依托重庆市农业综合开发科技推广中心做技术推广；师生团队围绕西南地区城乡发展、长江上游生态屏障建设和成渝地区双城经济圈建设开展工作，在乡村振兴、国土景观保护、流域生态治理、森林生态修复等方面形成了一批能落地的技术方案，教师也到国家级科技小院指导生产。学院培养的毕业生中，以吴明珠院士为代表的一批人长期在果树、蔬菜、园林行业一线工作。
From Horticulture Department to a College
The College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Southwest University began as the Horticulture Department of Southwest Agricultural College in 1950, one of the first and most established teaching units on campus. The department was renamed in 1985 when the institution became Southwest Agricultural University, and in 2002 it was reorganised as the College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture of that university. In July 2005 Southwest Agricultural University merged with Southwest Normal University to form Southwest University, and the college took its present name. Undergraduate teaching in horticulture goes back to a fruit and vegetable programme set up in 1950, which was later split into separate fruit and vegetable tracks and combined into a single horticulture major in 1995. Undergraduate teaching in landscape architecture started in 1984. The college is in Beibei District, Chongqing, and its teaching and research are carried out on the Southwest University campus.
Three Departments and the Degree System
The college has three departments, for horticulture, landscape architecture and plant science, and offers three undergraduate majors: horticulture, landscape gardening and landscape architecture. Horticulture was among the first national first-class majors and is also a national speciality major, landscape gardening is a national first-class major, and landscape architecture is a Chongqing first-class major. On the degree side, the college has a postdoctoral station and a doctoral programme in horticulture as a first-level discipline, a professional doctorate in landscape architecture, three second-level doctoral programmes in pomology, olericulture and ornamental horticulture, six second-level master’s programmes in pomology, olericulture, ornamental horticulture, botany, cell biology and microbiology, and two professional master’s programmes in landscape architecture and agriculture. Pomology is a national key discipline under cultivation, and pomology, olericulture and landscape plants and ornamental horticulture are key disciplines of Chongqing. Horticulture trains graduate students in four steady directions: exploration and use of germplasm resources, development and application of breeding techniques, efficient cultivation and green production, and regulation of product quality and nutrition. Landscape architecture has been taught here for more than forty years, is a key discipline in Chongqing’s 14th Five-Year Plan, and is organised into five teaching and research sections covering planning and design with history and theory, plant application and ecology, architecture and engineering, plant propagation, and design fundamentals.
Faculty and Research Platforms
The college has 117 staff, including 26 professors and research fellows, 36 associate professors and associate research fellows, one expert receiving a special government allowance from the State Council, and three academic and technical leaders of Chongqing. About 1,700 undergraduates, master’s students, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers are enrolled. The horticulture department has 38 staff, among them 10 professors, 19 associate professors, four doctoral supervisors and 23 master’s supervisors. The landscape architecture department has 54 staff; 92.5 percent hold master’s or doctoral degrees, more than half have studied or worked abroad, and 11 are full professors. Research platforms include the Key Laboratory of Southern Mountain Horticulture under the Ministry of Education, the Konjac Research Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Chongqing Flower Engineering Technology Research Centre, the Chongqing Loquat Engineering Technology Research Centre, the Chongqing Agricultural Comprehensive Development and Technology Extension Centre, the Chongqing university key laboratories for olericulture and for pomology, the Chongqing university engineering research centre for konjac resource use, and the Southwest University Landscape Planning and Design Institute, together more than ten ministerial, provincial and university-level platforms. Eight research teams work on cruciferous vegetable genetics and breeding, konjac resource evaluation and efficient cultivation, fruit quality biology, horticultural plant quality regulation and biological breeding, national landscape protection and ecological restoration, landscape planning and design, landscape plants and their use, and sustainable human settlements and engineering technology. There are two teaching and research farms on campus and more than twenty off-campus practice bases, including a national demonstration joint training base for professional master’s degrees in landscape architecture; the landscape architecture department also runs 22 laboratories.
Research Output and International Cooperation
Over the past decade the college has taken on more than 1,080 projects under the 863 Programme, the 973 Programme, the National Natural Science Foundation and provincial and commissioned schemes, with total funding of nearly 182 million yuan. It has published 711 academic papers and 19 books, textbooks and popular science titles; won seven national and provincial-level research awards including a second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award; bred 23 new varieties; obtained six plant variety rights and 28 invention patents; and taken more than thirty provincial-level or higher awards for planning and design work. During the 14th Five-Year Plan the horticulture discipline added more than 30 national-level projects, published in journals such as Nature Communications, Microbiome, Plant Journal and Plant Physiology, added one national first-class undergraduate course and six provincial-level first-class courses, published five textbooks and two books and drew up one standard. Its “Xiyuan No. 4” cabbage was listed among the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recommended varieties for two years running, one technology was listed among Chongqing’s recommended technologies, and the college led work that won a first prize of the Chongqing Science and Technology Progress Award. Internationally, the college works with universities and research institutes in more than twenty countries and regions, including the United States, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and France. It runs a 2+2 undergraduate programme with Colorado State University and a 3+1 programme with Nottingham Trent University, and the landscape architecture discipline also trains students from Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, India and Pakistan.
College Motto and Extension Work
The college motto is “follow nature, serve the public”, meaning that the college follows natural laws and serves the country and society. Its stated spirit is thought first, practice above all, broad learning and constant refinement, and the university as a whole speaks of standing tall in the southwest and learning for the world. On the service side the college runs a science outreach centre and a training centre and carries out technology extension through the Chongqing Agricultural Comprehensive Development and Technology Extension Centre. Staff and student teams work on urban and rural development in the southwest, on the ecological barrier of the upper Yangtze, and on the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, and have produced practical technical solutions for rural revitalisation, national landscape protection, watershed ecological treatment and forest restoration; teachers also advise production at national science and technology backyards. Among its graduates, a group led by the academician Wu Mingzhu has worked for decades on the front line of fruit, vegetable and landscape gardening.
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