Plant Growth Chamber Facility at the Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison

植物受到变幻莫测的环境的影响，而动物通常有自我平衡机制，通过这种机制来调节新陈代谢发生的条件。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校植物系研究了植物对光、温度和二氧化碳水平等环境信号做出反应的分子和进化机制。为了进行这些研究，有必要在各种环境条件下种植植物。其他研究是在正常空气中相对较低的二氧化碳和较高的O2水平下进行的。这些突变植物在富含二氧化碳的环境中生长良好。对于这些和在本部门进行的许多其他研究，我们要求不受当时天气的影响。生长室最初安装于1957年，以满足这一需求，但这些房间已不再满足该部门对现代植物生长设施的需求。

Plants suffer the vagaries of their environment while animals often have homeostatic mechanisms by which they regulate the conditions in which their metabolism occurs. The molecular and evolutionary mechanisms by which plants respond to environmental cues such as light, temperature, and CO2 level are studied in the Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is necessary to grow plants under a range of environmental conditions for these studies. Other studies conducted in the relatively low CO2 and high 02 level in normal air. These mutant plants grow well in environments enriched with CO2. For these and many other studies undertaken in this department, we require unaffected by the prevailing weather. Growth rooms were originally installed in 1957 to fill this need, but these rooms were no longer meet the needs of the department for modern plant growth facilities.