The predecessor of the State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid regions was the Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Molecular Biology established in June 2001. In 2005, it entered the construction sequence of the National Key Laboratory cultivation base jointly built by the Ministry of Science and Technology and passed the construction and acceptance in 2006. In October 2011, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved the construction of the State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid regions relying on our university, which passed the construction acceptance organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology in November 2013, and passed the first evaluation with good results in June 2017.