Acquisition of High Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) System

威斯康星大学(麦迪逊分校)的五位主要研究人员的研究项目侧重于植物的次生化学(化感物质)。这些项目包括：1.遗传因素和环境胁迫对植物次生化学的影响。2.植物化学变异对植物对昆虫和哺乳动物食草动物抗性的影响。3.基因工程和植物体外生产独特的有机化合物。REQUEST HPTLC系统对于这些研究领域的快速进展至关重要，因为它是能够对所需的大量样品进行快速色谱分析的唯一分析系统。此外，它非常适合不稳定化合物的分析，这是几个研究项目工作的核心。如果没有HPTLC提供的能力，各个研究领域的进展将受到严重阻碍。

Research programs of five principal investigators at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) focus on the secondary chemistry (allelochemicals) of plants. These programs involve studies of: 1. Effects of genetic factors and environmental stresses plant secondary chemistry. 2. Consequences of variation in plant chemistry for plant resistance to insect and mammalian herbivores. 3. Genetic engineering and in vitro production of unique organic compounds by plants. The requests HPTLC system is essential for expeditious progress in these research areas because it is the only analytical system capable of rapid chromatographic analysis of the large numbers of samples required. Moreover, it is ideally suited for analysis of labile compounds, which are central to the work of several of the research programs. Without the capabilities offered by HPTLC, progress in the respective research areas will be seriously impeded.//