Acquisition of Plant Growth Equipment for the Proposed "C.A. Ryan Plant Growth Fac. Complex"

我们要求国家科学基金会的仪器设施计划与华盛顿州立大学提供的资金相匹配，用于建造一个现代化的温室和购买两个环境控制的生长室。这些植物生长设施对于缓解生物化学研究所教职员工可用植物生长空间的严重短缺至关重要，这一限制将因未来三年增加两个新教员而加剧。在6240平方英尺的英国《金融时报》在目前提供给7个研究所研究人员的温室空间中，超过80%是从其他部门借来的。正如提案中详细讨论的那样，该研究所的研究包括调节萜类和苯丙烷代谢、调节碳和氮代谢、结构阐明以及参与植物信号传递过程的新型碳水化合物和多肽的作用。胁迫诱导和发育调节基因的结构-功能关系，这些基因编码参与植物防御或贮藏功能的蛋白质，以及碳水化合物和脂肪参与细胞新陈代谢的调节作用。这些研究项目目前或已经得到了美国国家科学基金会的支持，它们使用了各种各样的植物，这些植物需要特定的环境条件才能实现最佳生长，而且通常需要在受控条件下种植大量这些植物材料。

We are requesting that the Instrumentation Facilities Program of the National Science Foundation match funds made available by Washington State University for construction of a modern greenhouse and acquisition of two environment controlled growth chambers. These plant growth facilities are essential to alleviate the critical shortage of plant growth space available to the faculty of the faculty of the Institute of Biological Chemistry, a limitation which will be compounded by the addition of two new faculty in the next three years. Of the 6,240 sq. ft. of greenhouse space presently available to the 7 Institute researchers, more than 80% is on loan from other departments. As discussed in detail in the proposal, research at the Institute includes studies on the regulation of terpeniod and phenylpropanoid metabolism, regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism, structural elucidation and role of novel carbohydrates and peptides involved in plant signaling processes, structure- function relationships of stress induced and developmentally regulated genes that encode proteins involved in plant defense or of storage function, and the regulatory role of carbohydrates and lipids involved in cellular metabolism. These research programs, which are currently or have been supported by NSF, employ a diverse assortment of plants that demand specific environmental conditions for optimal growth and often require large amounts of these plant materials to be grown under controlled conditions.