Equipment for Teaching and Student Research in Plant Ecologyand Evolutionary Biology

通过该项目购买的设备是为了提高 实验室教学和增加本科生机会 学生研究植物生态学和进化生物学。 几 正在安装的功能相关项目包括植物生长 室，平衡，便携式光合作用系统，便携式叶片 面积计、数据记录器和用于提取生物化学物质的设备 植物组织中的化合物。 这一新设备响应了日益增长的 学生的兴趣，生态学和进化生物学，通过协助 教师（1）引入水生生物学和人口的新课程 生物学，（2）在现有的实验室中增加一个新的实验室组成部分 进化生物学课程，（3）改进实验教学， 五个其他现有的课程，和（4）增加项目的种类 学生可以独立进行研究。 在教学实验室，新设备正在使用 在各种演习，包括调查的影响， 环境参数对植物生长、发育和代谢的影响 在自然环境和受控条件下; 控制条件下植物竞争的实验研究 环境条件;以及性状遗传的研究 数量性状（Quantitative Traits）。 受赠机构正在将NSF奖项与同等奖项相匹配 从非联邦来源获得的金额。

The equipment purchased through this project is to improve laboratory instruction and enhance opportunities for undergraduate student research in plant ecology and evolutionary biology. Several functionally related items being installed include plant growth chambers, balances, a portable photosynthesis system, a portable leaf area meter, a datalogger, and equipment for extracting biochemical compounds from plant tissues. This new equipment responds to increased student interest in ecology and evolutionary biology by assisting the faculty to (1) introduce new courses in Aquatic Biology and Population Biology, (2) add a new laboratory component to the existing Evolutionary Biology course, (3) improve laboratory instruction in five other existing courses, and (4) increase the kinds of projects that students may conduct as independent research. In the instructional laboratories, the new equipment is being used in a variety of exercises that include investigations of the effects of environmental parameters on plant growth, development, and metabolism in both natural environments and under controlled conditions; experimental studies of plant competition under controlled environmental conditions; and studies of the inheritance of traits affected by many genes (quantitative traits). The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.