Plant Growth Chambers for Undergraduate Laboratories

生物学课程中的十门植物学课程都需要环境生长室，在那里光、温度和相对湿度等因素可以被调节，以观察它们对植物生长和行为的影响。使用这两个新的PT-80 Percival生长箱研究的生物现象范围广泛，包括藻类和苔藓植物性阶段的开始，研究不同植物群体的生理过程，植物器官和愈伤组织的发育分化，以及环境因素对本地植物群体生长、生存和竞争的影响。这些生长室也被普通真菌学学生用于研究外生菌根，以及在植物生长与发育和生物技术课程中进行组织培养实验。

Ten Botany courses in the Biology curriculum share a common need for environmental growth chambers where factors of light, temperature, and relative humidity can be regulated to observe their effects on plant growth and behavior. The wide range of biological phenomena being investigated using the two new PT-80 Percival Growth Chambers include the initiation of the sexual phase in algae and bryophytes, the study of physiological processes in various groups of plants, developmental differentiation in plant organs and in callus tissue, and the effects of environmental factors on growth, survival and competition in populations of native plants. The growth chambers also are being utilized in the study of ectomycorrhizae by General Mycology students, and in conducting tissue culture experiments in Plant Growth and Development and Biotechnology courses.