Controlled environment facility

在一切科学工作中，绝对需要控制和操纵实验参数的能力。我们对植物、真菌和微生物生物学的研究需要能够在精确控制和可复制的条件下培养我们的实验生物，以便从同一个“起点”开始每项实验。我们所要求的受控环境室将为我们提供这种基本能力，以及控制温度、湿度、光量、光质量和大气气体成分的能力。这一基本工具将提供一个共同的平台，从中可以进行广泛的研究；从环境因素诱导基因表达，通过耐药性的进化和植物宿主/病原体相互作用的生态。

In all scientific endeavours, there is an absolute need for the ability to control and manipulate experimental parameters. Our research on plant, fungal and microbial biology requires an ability to grow our experimental organisms under precisely controlled and reproducible conditions in order to begin each experiment from the same "starting point". The controlled environmental chambers that we have requested will give us this basic capability along with the ability to manipulate temperature, humidity, light quantity, light quality and the composition of atmospheric gases. This fundamental tool will provide a common platform from which broad ranging research can be conducted; from the induction of gene expression by environmental factors, through the evolution of drug resistance and the ecology of plant host / pathogen interactions.