Replacement & Acquisition of Plant Growth Chambers

华盛顿州立大学（WSU）是ARI计划的资金接收，以取代过时的植物科学研究生长室。 环境生长箱是现代植物生物学研究基础设施的关键组成部分。 随着教师扩大实验研究，必须控制环境参数，以调节大气气体水平，同时研究全球大气变化对植物生长的影响，并在研究基因调控机制的同时生产和维持转基因植物。 目前的生长室已经使用了20年，机械和电气故障严重到令人无法忍受的程度，严重损害了植物学系的研究和培训使命。 教师和学生研究人员必须能够使用配备高光强，湿度控制，气体交换能力和在线计算机监控的现代植物生长室。 该奖项，除了从默多克慈善信托基金和华盛顿州立大学的资金，将用于建立一个环境植物生长实验室，一个高优先级的研究计划。 综合实验室将由许多不同的植物生长室组成，为当前和未来的研究需求创造一个具有最大灵活性的整体设施。 足够的规模和多样性将使研究人员能够在未来二十年内解决国家和国际植物生物学问题。 因此，这个项目将积极影响的研究基础设施和培训使命的WSU以及进入下一个世纪。

Washington State University (WSU) is the receipt of funds from the ARI Program to replace obsolescent growth chambers for plant science research. Environmental Growth chambers are critical components of the basic infrastructure of modern plant biology research. As faculty expand their experimental studies, environmental parameters must be controlled to regulate atmospheric gas levels while investigating the effect of global atmospheric changes on plant growth, and to produce and maintain transgenic plants while studying the mechanisms of gene regulation. Current growth chambers are 20 years old and are experiencing intolerable levels of mechanical and electrical failures, severely impairing the research and training mission of the Botany Department. It is essential that faculty and student investigators have access to modern plant growth chambers equipped with high light intensities, humidity control, gas exchange capabilities, and on-line computer monitoring. This award, in addition to funding from the Murdock Charitable Trust and WSU, will be used to establish an Environmental Plant Growth Laboratory, a high priority research initiative. The integrated Laboratory will consist of a number of different plant growth chambers creating an overall facility with the maximum level of flexibility for current and future research needs. Being of sufficient size and diversity will enable investigators to address national and international issues of plant biology over the next two decades. Thus, this project will positively impact the research infrastructure and training mission of WSU well into the next century.