Improved Plant Growth Facilities for Indiana University

印第安纳大学改进的植物生长设施

• 批准号: 0301701
• 负责人: Keith Clay
• 金额: $ 23.75万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0301701&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improved; Plant; Growth; Facilities; Indiana

A grant has been awarded to Indiana University under the direction of Dr. Keith Clay to upgrade and expand the plant growth facilities to facilitate research and teaching activities in the Plant Sciences Program. Air conditioning and high intensity lighting will be provided for ten greenhouse rooms totaling 6,537 sq. ft. To make the most efficient use of improved greenhouse space, rolling benches will be installed in these rooms. Additionally, one walk-in growth room and three reach-in growth chambers will be acquired on this grant. Sixteen Plant Sciences faculty, directing a total of 56 graduate students and 30 postdoctoral fellows, will make use of the improved greenhouse facility. Teaching in the plant sciences at the graduate and undergraduate levels is currently impeded by limited plant growth space. Highly controlled growth facilities with more useable space will enhance research programs in several areas of the plant sciences at Indiana University including Plant and Ecosystem Ecology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Plant Evolutionary Genetics and Plant Molecular Biology/ Biochemistry. Moreover, improved plant growth facilities will enhance teaching activities and facilitate several new educational and recruiting initiatives instituted by the Biology Department, including the recruitment and training of under-represented groups in the life sciences.

在Keith Clay博士的指导下，印第安纳大学获得了一笔赠款，用于升级和扩展植物生长设施，以促进植物科学项目的研究和教学活动。将为10个温室房间提供空调和高强度照明，总面积为6537平方米。为了最有效地利用改善后的温室空间，这些房间将安装滚动长凳。此外，这笔赠款还将购置一个步入式生长室和三个伸入式生长室。16个植物科学学院，共指导56名研究生和30名博士后，将利用改进的温室设施。目前，植物生长空间有限，阻碍了研究生和本科生的植物科学教学。高度控制的生长设施和更多的可用空间将加强印第安纳大学植物科学几个领域的研究项目，包括植物和生态系统生态学，植物-微生物相互作用，植物进化遗传学和植物分子生物学/生物化学。此外，改善植物生长设施将加强教学活动，并促进生物系提出的若干新的教育和征聘倡议，包括征聘和培训在生命科学方面人数不足的群体。