Plant Growth Facilities for Florida State University

研究人员提出了三个项目，旨在促进佛罗里达州立大学的基础植物科学和生态学研究：(1)建造和装备一座3100平方英尺的建筑。(2)对一个较旧的温室进行换皮和翻新；(3)购买六个新的植物生长室。这些设施将用于各种单用户和多用户项目。将使用这些设施的拟议研究样本包括通过体细胞杂交(Bates，主要使用者)在植物物种之间转移性状的研究，作为环境条件函数的植物竞争表现的演变(Miller，主要使用者)，必需多肽在光系统II的水氧化复合体中的作用(Homann，主要使用者)，植物叶片细胞内和细胞内蔗糖运动的重要性和机制，天敌、物理因素和植物营养之间的相互作用对稻飞虱(强、主要利用者)种群动态的影响，不同空间尺度(主要利用者)种群分化和分化格局的基础，以及选择和基因流之间的相互作用，以决定池鱼的适应性变异模式(Travis，次要用户)。

The researchers propose three projects designed to promote basic plant science and ecological research at Florida State University: (1) to construct and equip one 3100-sq.-ft. Freon-air-conditioned greenhouse, (2) to re-skin and refurbish one older greenhouse, and (3) to purchase six new plant growth chambers. These facilities will be used for a variety of both single-and multiple-user projects. A sample of proposed research that would use these facilities includes studies of the transfer of traits between plant species by means of somatic hybridization (Bates, major user), the evolution of plant competitive performance as a function of environmental conditions (Miller, major user), the role of essential polypeptides in the water-oxidizing complex of photosystem II (Homann, major user), the importance and mechanisms of inter-and intracellular sucrose movement in plant leaves (Outlaw, major user), interactions among natural enemies, physical factors, and plant nutrition in their effects on the population dynamics of planthoppers (Strong, major user), the basis of patterns of population differentiation and divergence at different spatial scale (Winn, major user),and interactions between selection and gene flow in determining patterns of adaptive variation in poeciliid fishes (Travis, minor user).