Local universities are an important force in the national higher education system. Like the national key institutions of higher learning, it undertakes three major tasks: cultivating high-quality talents, producing high-level scientific research results and serving the local economy. Discipline is the basis of teaching, scientific research and personnel training in colleges and universities, and it is also an important symbol to measure the overall level of colleges and universities. As a member of the national science and education team, local colleges and universities pay more attention to local characteristics. Scientific research is an important part of discipline construction, with clear objectives and characteristics. Scientific research can make full use of the scientific and technological resources of colleges and universities, produce excellent scientific research results, promote theoretical and technological innovation, promote the construction and development of characteristic disciplines in colleges and universities, and create better conditions for completing the three major tasks entrusted by the state to colleges and universities. Therefore, it is very important to correctly understand the relationship and role of scientific research in discipline construction.

1 the importance of scientific research in the construction of characteristic disciplines in local universities

Discipline construction is based on the development of science and the needs of society, and consciously regulates the development of disciplines based on their own development laws. Discipline is an important foundation for cultivating advanced talents and developing science and technology culture in colleges and universities, and it is also a basic element of colleges and universities. If a university has its own unique discipline, it will have an influence at home and even internationally, and it will also have a foothold in society. To strengthen discipline construction, it is necessary to highlight the key points and characteristics on the premise of meeting the three major tasks of colleges and universities. Due to many reasons such as history, location, talents and funds, local colleges and universities have their own characteristics and shortcomings. Therefore, in the discipline construction, she should pay more attention to combining her own characteristics with the needs of social development, highlight her own characteristics and advantages, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, so as to strengthen her unique discipline construction, promote the discipline construction of the whole school and improve the school-running level.

Based on the principle of "supporting key points, giving full play to advantages, developing characteristics and improving the level", Yangtze University has established three characteristic disciplines: petroleum science and technology, Jianghan Plain waterlogged land development and Chu culture. It is precisely because of the construction of these three disciplines that the school has not only made breakthrough progress in "reservoir description" and comprehensive development of waterlogged land in Jianghan Plain, but also made important contributions to the protection of wild plants in Jingzhou ancient city wall; It also promoted the construction and development of other disciplines in the school and achieved remarkable results. In 2004 alone, Yangtze University won two first prizes for scientific and technological progress in Hubei Province, six second prizes for natural science and scientific and technological progress in Hubei Province and five third prizes, ranking first in the number of award-winning achievements of colleges and universities in Hubei Province.

2 the role of scientific research in the construction of characteristic disciplines

2. 1 Add new impetus to the transformation of traditional disciplines.

Traditional discipline is the product of long-term construction and years of development of the original discipline. It has its own unique advantages, but it also has certain limitations. With the progress of society and the development of science and technology, the limitations of traditional disciplines are increasingly prominent, and various contradictions will become increasingly acute. In order to reverse this phenomenon, we must strengthen scientific research, enrich new contents and develop continuously to adapt to the situation of accelerated social development and scientific and technological progress. "Utilization of soil resources in agricultural water conservancy" is a provincial key discipline and a traditional discipline of the College of Agriculture of Yangtze University. In the process of discipline construction, the discipline personnel firmly grasped the scientific research topic of "Reconstruction and Comprehensive Development of Four Lakes and Waterlogged Land in Jianghan Plain", conducted in-depth research on the four lakes and waterlogged land, explored the theoretical and technical system of management, development and utilization of low-and medium-yield waterlogged land represented by the characteristics of the four lakes and waterlogged land, and worked out the results that are "of great value to the sustainable development of agriculture in the same type of region". In the course of this scientific research activity, the project undertaker not only fully applied the theory and related knowledge of the subject of "Utilization of Agricultural Water and Soil Resources", but also explored some new theories and technologies through research, which benefited more than 4 million hectares of waterlogging-prone medium and low-yield fields and generated economic benefits of more than 600 million yuan, enriching the connotation of this subject and providing a good example for the construction of other disciplines.

2.2 Promote the common development of related disciplines

Scientific research is an important living space for disciplines. The construction of characteristic disciplines needs the participation, infiltration and support of related disciplines and scientific research, and the relationship between them is inseparable. High-level scientific research and the participation of many related disciplines can collide with knowledge of different levels and disciplines, generate new knowledge sparks, generate new scientific and technological growth points, and gain new growth space, thus better promoting discipline construction. In the course of the discipline construction of "Agricultural Water and Soil Resources Utilization", the discipline builders actively strive for and participate in various related scientific research work, and have obtained certain construction conditions. This discipline has successively undertaken international cooperation project 1, Hubei Natural Science Foundation 10, major scientific research projects and key research projects in Hubei Province, and funded project 12 of Hubei Provincial Department of Education, with the research funding reaching 3.5 million yuan. Together with the total funding of 650 million yen from Japan, the total research funding for this discipline in five years has reached 788. In the course of research, scientific researchers have integrated the knowledge of crop cultivation and tillage, crop genetics and breeding, agricultural ecology and other disciplines, and related disciplines have also participated, all of which have achieved good results: they have achieved many world-advanced research achievements, and won the first prize of scientific and technological progress in Hubei Province 1, and many second and third prizes of scientific and technological progress in Hubei Province; He has published more than 100 research papers, 2 books and 4 teaching materials at home and abroad. Crop cultivation and cultivation, crop genetics and breeding, agricultural ecology and other disciplines have also obtained a lot of information in this series of studies, resulting in new theories and technologies under the specific background of waterlogging. This not only supports the discipline of "agricultural water and soil resources utilization", but also enriches itself. This cooperation not only promotes the construction of agricultural water and soil resources utilization discipline, but also promotes the construction and development of related disciplines. Through the tempering of scientific research and the participation of related disciplines, the discipline group construction of this discipline and related disciplines has made great progress, laying a solid foundation for our school to go to the whole country and occupy the commanding heights of wetland agricultural resources and environmental protection and utilization.

2.3 Scientific research promotes the development of characteristic disciplines and better serves the local economy.

Knowledge economy and rejuvenating the country through science and education make higher education face unprecedented challenges and opportunities, and local universities are no exception. Local colleges and universities can better serve local economic construction by strengthening scientific research, promoting the construction of characteristic disciplines, producing more scientific research results and transforming the research results into productive forces, so that discipline construction can find its own foothold and gain broad development prospects. In the process of discipline construction of Yangtze University, we can see such examples from time to time. For example, the discipline of crop genetics and breeding in Agricultural College has always paid attention to the combination of scientific research and production, found topics and carried out scientific research in production practice, and quickly extended the research results to agricultural production, and achieved good results: the barley variety "Ebi 2" cultivated by this discipline passed the variety identification in Hubei Province and Sichuan Province in 1989 and 1992 respectively; Beer and feed barley "Ebi No.5" also passed the variety identification in Hubei Province on 1993. E-cotton 15 is the first cotton variety with high yield, high quality and multi-resistance with a planting area of one million mu in China. It was approved and named by the Provincial Crop Variety Approval Committee in 1990. Breeding new cotton combinations "HZ 10 1" and "Hz 40 1" with high yield, disease resistance and insect resistance. In terms of rice, three-line hybrid rice Shanyou 8, Qingcaozao, wild male sterile line Wenxianzao A and photosensitive genic male sterile line Hunong 5S "with early maturity, high yield and disease resistance; Was chosen. At the same time, rapeseed "Eyouchangjiao", "Enong 82 Dwarf Broad Bean", soybean "Doue No.6", new kenaf ramie lines and new hybrid rice lines 1-94,1-kloc-0/61etc. were selected successively/kloc-0.

3 to strengthen scientific research need to pay attention to several issues

3. 1 target location

Scientific research needs a lot of manpower and material resources. The bigger the goal, the more investment. Limited by the current situation of local colleges and universities, there is also the problem of target orientation in the strategy of promoting the construction of characteristic disciplines by using scientific research strategies. Although a big goal may have a great effect, if the goal is set too high and difficult to achieve, it will have some negative effects and affect the continued implementation of this strategy. Considering the reality and comprehensively promoting it, it is safer to take all realistic conditions (including those that can be used in reality) as the upper limit.

3.2 Scientific research environment

Scientific research environment includes hard environment and soft environment needed for scientific research. The former includes the collection of equipment, funds and materials needed for scientific research, while the latter includes the rules and regulations and corresponding treatment needed to ensure the smooth progress of scientific research. To implement the strategy of strengthening disciplines, majors and schools through scientific research, we must focus on the overall situation and organize the implementation of this systematic project from a strategic height. With the support of superior leaders, the implementation unit should also give full consideration to the construction of soft and hard environment for scientific research. In a tough environment, they can integrate the equipment in the main research direction, concentrate their financial resources on solving some key equipment, or "borrow or rent the equipment of relevant units". In the soft environment, they should formulate corresponding incentive policies, so that everyone with scientific research ability can think about scientific research, be willing to do scientific research and be able to do it.

3.3 Team spirit

Team spirit is an important condition for organizing many researchers to tackle key problems. Strong team spirit, many researchers can gather under a certain banner, find their own position and work together in the same direction, which will have great success, great hope and great results. Otherwise, efforts should be made from all sides to make the assembled researchers have something to do and have the ability to do things. Otherwise, it is difficult to make a climate by going it alone and "mom-and-pop shops". Compared with the national key universities, the local universities have insufficient manpower and material resources, and team spirit is more important.