Plant Growth Chambers for Undergraduate Laboratories

生物学课程中的十门植物学课程有一个共同的需求， 环境生长室，其中光，温度和 可调节相对湿度，观察其对植物的影响 成长和行为。 广泛的生物现象 使用两个新的PT-80 Percival生长室进行研究，包括 藻类和藻类有性阶段的开始， 生理过程在不同的植物群体，发育 植物器官和愈伤组织的分化，以及 环境因素对种群生长、生存和竞争的影响 原生植物。 生长室也被用于 普通真菌学学生对外生真菌的研究， 植物生长发育组织培养实验 生物技术课程。

Ten Botany courses in the Biology curriculum share a common need for environmental growth chambers where factors of light, temperature, and relative humidity can be regulated to observe their effects on plant growth and behavior. The wide range of biological phenomena being investigated using the two new PT-80 Percival Growth Chambers include the initiation of the sexual phase in algae and bryophytes, the study of physiological processes in various groups of plants, developmental differentiation in plant organs and in callus tissue, and the effects of environmental factors on growth, survival and competition in populations of native plants. The growth chambers also are being utilized in the study of ectomycorrhizae by General Mycology students, and in conducting tissue culture experiments in Plant Growth and Development and Biotechnology courses.