Controlled Environment Chambers for Plant and Insect Research

该合同将为五个过时的环境室更换为最先进的步入式环境室提供部分支持，这些环境室的温度，光线和湿度可以完全控制和监控。 新的实验室将允许在植物和昆虫的生态学、进化、行为、发育、生理学、遗传学和分子生物学方面进行适当控制的实验。 新的实验室将允许研究人员控制温度、光照和湿度，以严格确定它们对重要植物和昆虫性状的影响。 此外，对生长环境的高度控制将确保实验组之间观察到的任何差异是处理的结果，而不是由于所研究的生物体的表型可塑性反应。新设施将支持一个由20多名研究人员及其学生组成的活跃团队。 商会将为包括妇女和少数民族在内的大量不同学生提供研究生和本科生研究和教育的机会。 研究用途预计将导致进步，这将提高我们对自然环境的理解和管理，以及我们对植物发育和生长的理解。 这些试验室将有助于研究植物与昆虫的相互作用，从而在基本认识和农业和保留地的管理实践方面取得进展。

This award provides partial support for the replacement of five outdated environmental chambers with state-of-the-art, walk-in chambers for which temperature, light and humidity can be fully controlled and monitored. The new chambers will allow properly controlled experiments in the ecology, evolution, behavior, development, physiology, genetics, and molecular biology of plants and insects. New chambers will allow researchers to control temperature, light and humidity in order to rigorously determine their effects on important plant and insect traits. In addition, a high degree of control over the growth environment will ensure that any differences seen between experimental groups are a result of the treatments and not due to phenotypically plastic responses by the organisms studied. The new facilities will support an active group of over two dozen researchers and their students. The chambers will provide opportunities for graduate and undergraduate research and education for a large and diverse population of students, including women and minorities. Research uses are expected to lead to advances that will improve our understanding and management of the natural environment, and of our understanding of plant development and growth. The chambers will enable study of plant-insect interactions that will lead to progress in basic understanding and in management practices for agricultural and reserve lands.