RIMI: Growing Our Own: Supporting the Next Generation of Plant Science Research at Howard University

9628388 McKenna为生物系温室的受控环境生长室的购置和安装寻求支持。这些实验室的增加将大大提高植物科学的研究能力，有助于招募有才华的本科生、研究生和新教员，并提供一个设施，可以支持旨在增加少数民族学生进入科学事业的大学前拓展项目。受控环境室的安装将扩展和加强在植物解剖学和发育、植物修复、植物生态生理学、植物生态学、植物系统学、真菌学、植物分子生物学和遗传学等领域正在进行的研究。该设施将允许该机构长期维持实验植物种群，维持克隆或植物家族进行遗传实验，为细胞和分子实验（包括组织培养，DNA分析和植物修复）培养源材料，维护植物进行系统研究，并在受控环境条件下设计实验以研究细胞，生理或生态过程。

9628388 McKenna Support is sought for the acquisition and installation of controlled environment growth chambers in the biology department greenhouse. The addition of these chambers will significantly increase research capabilities in plant science, aid in recruitment of talented undergraduates, graduate students and new faculty, and provide a facility that can support precollege outreach programs designed to increase the entry of minority students in science careers. The installation of controlled environment chambers will extend and enhance ongoing research in the areas of plant anatomy and development, phytoremediation, plant ecophysiology, plant ecology, plant systematics, mycology, plant molecular biology and genetics. The facility will allow the institution to maintain experimental plant populations over long periods, maintain clones or plant families for genetic experiments, grow source material for cellular and molecular experiments including tissue culture, DNA analysis, and phytoremediation, maintain plants for systematic study, and design experiments under controlled environmental conditions to study cellular, physiological or ecological processes.