Modern higher education is the bonding point of talent cultivation and S&T innovation.Cultivating the innovative talents is the important historic mission.Based on the case study of resources and environment specialty of Huazhong Agricultural University,this paper,in order to explore the ways on how to cultivate innovative talents in teaching and scientific research and how to support the high-quality teaching with high quality scientific research,exert the function of teaching through research and adhere to cultivation of S&T research and academic function of teaching,illustrates the philosophy of innovative talent cultivation in teaching through research,analyzes the mode of such talent cultivation,that is,teaching is part of reseach,research is part of teaching and teaching talents in cooperative ways.This paper also discusses the practice of building platform for innovative talent cultivation of teaching through research and proposes three ways on how to perfect such mechanism:constructing the management system of teaching through research,perfecting the incentive mechanism of teaching through research and building the supervision mechanism of teaching through research.This paper finally summarizes the achievements from innovative talent cultivation in teaching through research.