MRI: Acquisition of controlled-environment chambers for integrative botanical research and training at UT-Tyler

MRI：在 UT-Tyler 购买用于综合植物学研究和培训的受控环境室

• 批准号: 1229742
• 负责人: Joshua Banta
• 金额: $ 25.36万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Tyler
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1229742&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; controlled; environment; chambers

This award funds the acquisition of a set of walk-in controlled-environment chambers for plant experimentation. They are equipped with temperature, humidity, photoperiod, lighting, and CO2 controls. Up to 13,500 plants will efficiently fit into these chambers, allowing experiments at all times of the year, including the hot Texas summers. The integrative plant research programs enabled by these chambers will span many sub-disciplines in biology, including cellular biology, molecular biology, developmental biology, physiology, ecology, evolution, and genetics. These chambers will have a stimulating effect on plant biology research throughout Northeast Texas, a region with over one million people that has several universities and colleges but that has almost no facilities for environmentally controlled plant experiments. The primary users for these chambers work with agriculturally important plant families, and their work has either direct or indirect implications for agriculture. Furthermore, the research in these chambers can be conducted under different climate scenarios, including increased CO2 levels and temperatures. Undergraduates and graduate students will be allocated space in the chambers to work on these and other projects, providing invaluable training opportunities for future scientists, farmers, and land managers. These findings will be publicized by scientific publications, faculty and student presentations at regional and national meetings, and press releases to local media outlets, which have low barriers to news coverage and large audiences.

该奖项为购买一套用于植物实验的步入式受控环境室提供资金。它们配备了温度、湿度、光周期、照明和二氧化碳控制。多达13500株植物将有效地安置在这些房间里，允许在一年中的任何时候进行实验，包括德克萨斯州炎热的夏季。综合植物研究项目将跨越生物学的许多分支学科，包括细胞生物学、分子生物学、发育生物学、生理学、生态学、进化和遗传学。这些实验室将对整个德克萨斯州东北部的植物生物学研究产生刺激作用，这个地区有100多万人口，有几所大学和学院，但几乎没有环境控制植物实验的设施。这些室的主要用户与农业上重要的植物科一起工作，他们的工作对农业有直接或间接的影响。此外，这些实验室内的研究可以在不同的气候情景下进行，包括二氧化碳水平升高和温度升高。本科生和研究生将被分配到会议室中从事这些和其他项目，为未来的科学家、农民和土地管理者提供宝贵的培训机会。这些发现将通过科学出版物、教师和学生在区域和国家会议上的发言以及向当地媒体发布新闻稿加以宣传，因为这些媒体对新闻报道的障碍较低，受众众多。