中心定位与组建
国家花卉工程技术研究中心于 2005 年 1 月经国家科技部批准组建，依托单位为北京林业大学，是花卉领域唯一的国家级工程技术研发平台。中心以园林植物与观赏园艺国家重点学科为技术支撑，现有工程实验室、教育部园林环境工程研究中心、北京林大林业科技股份有限公司、名花研究室、中国插花花艺中心等内设机构，下设研发设施长期向产业开放。中心面向我国花卉产业布局、区域特色和产品特色，在全国建有 16 个研发与推广中心，组成一个完整的技术研发与推广体系。
五个研究方向
中心围绕花卉资源和种质创新、花卉新品种培育、花卉现代化生产、采后保鲜贮运、花卉应用和人居环境建设五个方向持续开展工程技术研发与产业拓展。近年的代表性工作集中在四个层面：种质资源上，中心牵头完成了紫薇基因组组装和群体变异研究，并搭建起梅花基因组学研究专题子站；新品种培育上，紫薇、梅花、月季、报春花等育种团队陆续推出新品种或新杂交后代；采后与现代化生产上，中心把切花采后处理、贮运保鲜与设施栽培纳入同一研发链；应用与产业转化上，2024 年中心主持的两项国家标准和 2022 年的两项团体标准正式发布，把研究端的标准输出到产业端。
团队与支撑体系
中心组建了一支以院士领衔、以国家级和省部级学科带头人为骨干的高水平工程化研发团队，形成全国乃至国际有重大影响的花卉研究群体。中心长期聘任张启翔教授团队负责梅花、紫薇、月季育种方向，潘会堂教授团队负责报春花组间杂交育种方向，团队成员同时承担研究生培养任务。中心以园林植物与观赏园艺国家重点学科为依托，研发设施覆盖分子生物学实验室、组培与遗传转化平台、生理生化分析平台、温室与种质资源圃等。中心挂靠北京林业大学，与校内林学、园林、生物学等多个一级学科形成交叉支撑。
研发与推广网络
中心依据我国花卉产业布局、区域特色和产品特色，在全国布局 16 个研发与推广中心，覆盖华北、华东、华南、西南、东北等主要花卉产区，承担区域特色花卉的研发、示范与推广。中心同时是中国园艺学会、中国花卉协会、中国林业教育学会等专业组织的成员单位，参与中国观赏园艺学术研讨会的多年组织工作。中心主办的梅花基因组学研究专题子站（prunusmumegenome.bjfu.edu.cn）面向国内外公开梅属植物基因组数据，是中心面向公众的代表性数字资源。
近年代表性进展
2022 年中心有两项团体标准正式发布。2023 年，中心月季育种团队成果获北京市科技进步奖，紫薇育种团队完成紫薇基因组组装和群体变异研究。2024 年是中心产出最密集的一年：紫薇育种团队完成大花紫薇高质量染色体级基因组，梅花育种团队在梅花花青素积累和李属植物 GAox 基因研究方向分别取得新进展；中心抗寒梅花团标获评 2024 年北京市相关奖；中心主持的两项国家标准正式发布；中心还参与了实践十九号返回式试验卫星花卉航天育种相关工作。中心的常规工作还包括组织仪器讲座和学术讲座，主题涉及 LI-6400XT 光合仪、无人机遥感、中美观赏园艺产业对比、植物分枝角度调控等。
Mandate and Establishment
The National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture (NERCF) was approved by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology in January 2005. It is hosted by Beijing Forestry University and is the only national-level engineering research platform in floriculture. NERCF is anchored on the National Key Discipline of Landscape Plants and Ornamental Horticulture. Its in-house facilities include an engineering laboratory, the Ministry of Education’s Research Center for Landscape and Environmental Engineering, Beijing Forestry University’s Forestry Technology Co., Ltd., a Famous Flowers Research Office and the China Center for Ikebana and Floral Art. Sixteen regional R&D and extension centres spread across the country make up the rest of the network.
Five Research Directions
NERCF organises its engineering research and industry outreach around five directions: flower genetic resources and germplasm innovation, breeding of new flower varieties, modern flower production, post-harvest preservation and transport, and flower use in human habitats. Recent work covers the full chain. In germplasm, the centre led the assembly of the crape myrtle genome and built a dedicated sub-site on Prunus mume genome research. In breeding, teams working on crape myrtle, Prunus mume, rose and Primula have released new cultivars and hybrid combinations. In modern production and post-harvest handling, the centre links cut-flower treatments, storage and protected cultivation. On the application and translation side, two national standards led by NERCF were released in 2024 and two group standards in 2022.
Research Team and Backbone
The centre is led by an engineering-oriented team with academician-level guidance and a backbone of national and ministerial-level discipline leaders, and has built up a flower research community with national and international impact. Long-running principal investigators include Professor Zhang Qixiang’s group on Prunus mume, crape myrtle and rose breeding and Professor Pan Huitang’s group on inter-sectional hybridisation in Primula, both of whom also supervise graduate students. The centre draws on the National Key Discipline of Landscape Plants and Ornamental Horticulture and shares laboratory infrastructure across molecular biology, tissue culture and genetic transformation, plant physiology and biochemistry, and greenhouse and germplasm nurseries, with Beijing Forestry University providing cross-disciplinary support from forestry, landscape architecture and biology.
R&D and Extension Network
NERCF has set up sixteen regional R&D and extension centres across China’s main flower production areas, covering North China, East China, South China, Southwest China and Northeast China. Each centre takes responsibility for research, demonstration and extension work on flowers with regional characteristics. The centre is a member body of the Chinese Society for Horticultural Science, the China Flower Association and the Chinese Forestry Education Society, and has long been involved in organising the China Ornamental Horticulture Academic Conference. The dedicated Prunus mume Genome sub-site at prunusmumegenome.bjfu.edu.cn is one of the centre’s main public-facing digital resources.
Recent Research Highlights
In 2022 the centre released two group standards. In 2023 its rose breeding team received a Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, and the crape myrtle breeding team completed the crape myrtle genome assembly and population variation study. 2024 was the centre’s most productive year. The crape myrtle team published a high-quality chromosome-level genome of Lagerstroemia speciosa, the Prunus mume team reported progress on anthocyanin accumulation in plum blossom and on GAox genes in Prunus, the centre’s cold-tolerant Prunus mume group standard was recognised by a 2024 Beijing municipal award, and the centre’s two national standards were released. The centre also participated in spaceflight breeding work on the SJ-19 returnable test satellite. Regular activities include instrument and academic lectures on topics such as the LI-6400XT photosynthesis system, UAV remote sensing, China-US ornamental horticulture comparisons, and the regulation of plant branch angle.
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