Upgrade and Renovation of Plant Growth Facilities at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

冷泉港实验室植物生长设施升级改造

• 批准号: 0963400
• 负责人: Robert Martienssen
• 金额: $ 49.74万
• 依托单位: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Upgrade; Renovation; Plant; Growth; Facilities

Abstract This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds are provided for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) to renovate and upgrade existing plant growth facilities at our Uplands Farm Research Field Station. CSHL has an extensive greenhouse complex offsite where seminal work in Arabidopsis and crop plants has been conducted. The research focus on crop yield and adaptation of crops to substandard conditions has global impact and this will increase with these improved facilities. The greenhouses and growth rooms are used to support the research programs and also support the plant genetics teaching programs of the CSHL Dolan DNA Learning Center. These aging and outdated facilities are inadequate to meet the demands of current genome driven plant biology research. The infrastructural improvements will provide appropriate growing conditions for a greater diversity of plant species and will increase the energy efficiency of the facilities. In the proposed renovations, CSHL intends to:1 Replace boilers in two smaller greenhouses, and two boiler burner units in the largest of the three greenhouses.2 Install updated evaporative cooling units in each of the three greenhouses.3 Install automated ventilation, sunshade, and irrigation systems in all three greenhouses.4 Replace the aging, hazed acrylic sheathing on the largest greenhouse.5 Renovate and improve the head house of the largest greenhouse.6 Replace the cooling unit in the Field Station Laboratory with a modern and more efficient unit with an economizer ventilation unit.7 Replace outdated lighting fixtures in the Arabidopsis growth facilities with improved, high-efficiency units and install a dedicated heating loop.

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。资金用于冷泉港实验室(CSHL)翻新和升级我们高地农场研究野外站现有的植物生长设施。CSHL在异地拥有一个广泛的温室复合体，在那里已经进行了关于拟南芥和农作物的种子工作。对作物产量和作物对不符合标准条件的适应性的研究具有全球影响，随着这些设施的改进，这种影响将会增加。温室和生长室用于支持研究项目，也支持CSHL多兰DNA学习中心的植物遗传学教学项目。这些老化和过时的设施不足以满足当前基因组驱动的植物生物学研究的需求。基础设施的改善将为更多种类的植物提供适当的生长条件，并将提高设施的能源效率。在拟议的翻修中，CSHL打算：1更换两个较小温室的锅炉，以及三个温室中最大的一个的两个锅炉燃烧器。2在三个温室中的每个温室安装更新的蒸发冷却装置。3在所有三个温室安装自动通风、遮阳和灌溉系统。4更换最大温室的老化、雾化的亚克力护套。5整修和改善最大温室的主楼。6用节能器通风装置取代现场站实验室的冷却装置。7用改进的、高效的装置取代拟南芥种植设施中过时的照明装置，并安装专用加热回路。