Greenhouse Facilities for Maize Genetics

该奖项为植物生长设施的建设提供援助，由一组研究玉米和拟南芥的生物化学和遗传研究的研究人员共享。为植物提供可再生条件的生长设施对于现代生物学中有效利用植物所需的那种仔细的、定量的分析至关重要。此外，这样的设施提高了植物研究人员的生产力，因为玉米等植物的生长季可以延长到秋季和冬季。该奖项将把冷泉港实验室的玉米生长能力提高50%，并将为拟南芥的生长提供更大的增强，拟南芥是一种特别适合植物生长、发育和繁殖基础研究的植物。

This award provides aid in the construction of plant growth facilities to be shared by a group of investigators who do biochemical and genetic research on corn and Arabidopsis. Growth facilities that provide reproducible conditions for plants are crucial to the kinds of careful, quantitative analysis needed for the effective use of plants in modern biology. Moreover, such facilities increase the productivity of plant researchers since the growing season for plants like maize can be extended to cover the fall and winter months. The award will augment the capacity for growth of corn at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory by 50% and will provide for an even greater augmentation for growth of Arabidopsis, a plant particularly well suited to basic studies of plant growth, development and reproduction.