The Institute of Plant  Protection (BIPP) was founded in 1962.

BIPP’s main research fields are as follows:

Plant disease and pest control, safety plant protection products, environmental protection, beneficial micro-organisms, new varieties of mushroom screening, mushroom cultivation and health care products from mushrooms. The institute is also certificated by the Ministry of Agriculture for residue field trials for pesticide registration. IPEP has been the base for the establishment of Beijing Engineering Research Center for Edible Mushroom, Beijing Experimental Station of the National Platform for the Industrial System of Edible Mushroom, China-Canada Science and Inovation Center on Safe Agriculture Production, BAAFS-Cornell University Joint Laboratory of Grape Disease Center and Beijing International Co-operation Base in Science and Technology. IPEP is a member of the Beijing Society for Plant Pathology, Entomological Society of Beijing and Beijing Association for Mushroom Science.