Acquisition of Equipment for Maintaining Environmental Control in Greenhouses

这个设施将用于研究在阳光下受控的环境条件下种植高等植物的必要性。使用的很大一部分包括将转化的植物保持在能够尽快开花和结籽的条件下。这项研究涉及到理解发育因素和环境因素对基因的调控。使用的第二个主要组成部分是维持和繁殖用于赤霉素新陈代谢和基因表达光调控研究的突变系。最终的主要用途是生产大量来自许多不同物种的正常植物材料，用于研究烟草的组织特异性基因表达，大豆和拟南芥中发育调节的基因表达，一些不同物种的光合作用的捕光成分，玉米和向日葵的赤霉素代谢，以及评估紫花苜蓿和木麻黄等速生固氮树种的固氮能力。其他用途包括研究对乙烯和伤害的反应的基因表达，植物细胞质膜的电生理控制，特别是在气孔调节方面，以及研究水稻的植保素反应。

This facility will be used for research that necessitates growing higher plants under controlled environmental conditions in sunlight. A large component of the usage consists of maintaining transformed plants under conditions in which they can flower and produce seed as rapidly as possible. This research involves understanding gene regulation by developmental factors and by environmental factors. A second major component of the usage is to maintain and propagate mutant lines used in research on gibberellin metabolism and light regulation of gene expression. The final major usage is to produce large quantities of normal plant material from many different species for use in research into tissue specific gene expression in tobacco, developmentally regulated gene expression in soybean and in Arabidopsis, the light-harvesting components of photosynthesis in a number of different species, gibberellin metabolism in maize and sunflower, and assessing the nitrogen fixing ability of alfalfa and fast-growing nitrogen fixing trees like Casuarina. Other usage includes the study of gene expression in response to ethylene and wounding, electrophysiological controls of plant cell plasma membranes, particularly in regulation of stomata, and the study of the phytoalexin response in rice.