This laboratory is supported by CAS under the co-operation between the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture and Hunan province, and is oriented towards the manipulation of　 agricultural eco-systems crossing molecular, processes, systems to landscape, and regional scales, including fields monitoring, soil, water, plant and animal analyses 　and　 tests, with 　extension to　 field　 demonstrations. 　The total area of the headquarter laboratory is approximately over 3500 m2. It is divided into four functional units, with facilities capable for following researches:

RS-GIS and land planning: equipped 　with　 hyper-spectrograph　,　 scanner-plotter-digitizer　, 　database management system 　software　 (SQL Sever2000 and ACCESS),　 remote　 sense image-processing soft wares (ARCGIS and ERDAS, LENOVO service and DELL service).

Physical and chemical analyses: equipped 　with 　instruments for analyzing soil, water and plant tissues; including analyses of　 soil physical 　and chemical　 properties, 　nutrients (macro and micro) and heavy metals; including inductively　 coupled plasma　 mass spectrometer (ICP-MASS), atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS), phase-high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), and so on.

Animal analyses: equipped with instruments for analyzing animal physiological and nutrition parameters; including 　analyses　 of chemical　 composition　 of feedstuff, 　biochemical variables of blood, and meat quality indexes; including amino acid automatic analyzer, GC and biochemical characters.

Molecular analyses: equipped　 with　 Affymetrix 　gene 　chip　 system, real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) apparatus, particle bombardment apparatus, gel imaging system, super high speed centrifuge, super low temperature refrigerator, super　 clean work　 station, plant 　growth 　chamber, microscope, which can satisfy the demands for gene clone, gene transformation, molecular marker development, maker assistant selection, plant tissue culture and other experiments of molecular biology, genetics, plant chemistry and physiology.