During January 10th to 19th, 2017, prof. Zhang Chuanxi and PhD students Li Danting and Lu Jiabao flied to Vietnam to investigate brown planthopper geographical population and attend academic communication in Vietnam, with the invitation from Vietnam Plant Protection Research Institute. In Vietnam, prof. Zhang and two students collected brown planthopper from rice field in different area and learned from local scientists about brown planthopper occurrence. Professor and students visited Vietnam Plant Protection Research Institute. Researchers from Vietnam Plant Protection Research Institute introduced about research overview of Vietnam agriculture, and prof. Zhang gave an oral presentation “The functional genomics of the brown planthopper”. This investigation and academic communication is supported by National Natural Science Fund “genomic diversities of different oversea populations of the rice brown planthopper in South and Southeastern Asia, and the development of migration molecular markers”.
