上海市农业科学院生物技术研究所现有职工44名，其中高级专业技术职务人员11名，硕、博士22名,下设植物细胞工程研究室、植物基因工程研究室、转基因检测与安全评价研究室以及上海永业农科生物工程有限公司、上海延农生物工程有限公司,是上海市农业遗传育种重点实验室成员及日常管理单位。
生物所主要围绕上海都市型现代农业生产和发展中的关键问题，利用现代生物技术，进行自主知识产权的功能基因分离、克隆与元件构建和高效转基因技术平台建立; 通过现代生物技术与常规育种技术的有机结合，培育优质、抗病、抗逆的农作物新种质、新品种及中草药系列新产品; 研究利用植物反应器生产饲料添加剂、酶制剂等生物工程产品; 研究利用分子生物学技术对转基因作物及其加工产品进行检测和安全性评价。
近年来，生物所承担了大量国家级和市重大科技项目。育成DH大麦系列新品种、新品系; 研制出生产酶制剂、饲料添加剂等生物工程新制剂; 研制出检测准确性高、速度快、且廉价实用的试剂盒。共取得科技成果60余项，其中获得上海市科技进步一等奖3项、二等奖1项、三等奖1项; 已获得发明专利4项; 新品种审定证书3份; 高新技术成果转化认定证书3份; 发表论文200余篇，其中SCI国家级学报论文30余篇; 培养硕、博士生20余名。
BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER OF SHANGHAI ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
The Biotechnology Research Center of Shanghai Academy of Agriculture Science(BRCSAAS) is one of the Shanghai Agriculture Genetic and Breeding Key Labs and is charge for its daily routine. Currently, there are 44 staffs.22 of them have doctorate or masterate and 11 experts with high-ranking title.
The constitutions including the Institute of Plant Cell Engineering, the Institute of Plant Gene Engineering, the Institute of Testing and Safety Assessment of Transgenic Plants, Shanghai YongYe Agro-Bioengineering Co., Ltd and Yannong Biotech Co., Ltd.
The Biotechnology Research Center is not only an agricultural research institution with multiple disciplines, but also an academic center for agricultural research in Shanghai. The Research Center undertakes as its major tasks the applied research as well as applied basic research on agriculture and reinforces the developmental research to solve the key scientific problems with overall importance in Shanghai urban agricultural economy and to provide research achievements and services for the realization of modern agriculture in Shanghai. The Center lays its emphasis on establish a technology platform, which we have own intellectual property, for isolation and cloning of functional gene, elements construction and trnasgenetic plant high-effective expression. By combining modern biotechnology with traditional breeding, we have been remarkably successful in helping to raise yields, improve quality and improve resistance to pests and diseases not only in new crop gerplasms and cultivars but also new productions of Chinese medicine. The Center developed new way to produce the feedstuff additive and enzyme preparation, with the help of plant bioreactor. The Center takes the responsibility of organizing the molecular biology research on development strategies for the testing and safety assessment of transgenetic crops and their productions.
Until now the BRCSAAS has undertaken lots of programs at national,ministrial and provincial levels. DH barley new cultivars have been breeded. New feedstuff additive and enzyme preparation have been produced. Developed the fast, precise and low-cost reagent box. We have got more than 60 science achievements including six Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award (three first class, one second and one third). 4 invention patents have been issued; 3 new varieties have been considered for certification; 3 achievements have got the High and New Technology Transformed Certification. More than 200 original research articles have published, including SCI more than 30.20 doctor or master have got good training at the Center.
