Abstract:Excellent textbooks are the premise and foundation for high-level teaching. However, no systematic summary or research on the development of textbooks on agricultural microbiology is available in China and abroad. Therefore, we investigated and analyzed the development of textbooks on Microbiology published by Huazhong Agricultural University, and summarized the principles behind the updating of the textbooks, and the experience of the microbiologists in teaching and textbook reform, hoping to provide a reference for the education and research on agricultural microbiology at higher education institutions and the development of textbooks on microbiology in China.