Improved Plant Growth Facilities for Indiana University

在Keith Clay博士的指导下，印第安纳大学获得了一笔赠款，用于升级和扩大植物生长设施，以促进植物科学计划的研究和教学活动。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。英国《金融时报》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，根据这笔赠款，将购买一个步入式生长室和三个伸缩式生长室。16名植物科学教员，总共指导56名研究生和30名博士后研究员，将利用改进后的温室设施。目前，由于植物生长空间有限，研究生和本科生的植物科学教学受到阻碍。具有更多可用空间的高度受控的生长设施将加强印第安纳大学植物科学的几个领域的研究计划，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，改进的植物生长设施将加强教学活动，并促进生物系提出的几项新的教育和招聘举措，包括招募和培训生命科学领域中代表性不足的群体。

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.