Plant growth facility

该方案寻求资金来购买几个植物生长室，并重新安置现有的室，在正在建设的新科学研究大楼中创建一个植物生长设施。这些房间为五个不同的研究小组提供了一个高度控制和稳定的环境，这些小组由大约40名活跃的研究人员组成。每个研究单元都有一个独立的重点，包括植物发育、种子休眠和发芽、有性生殖和基因重组、能量代谢和代谢应激、离子运输和营养获取等各个方面，这些方面正在由5名nserc资助的教员和他们的研究小组积极研究。尽管这些广泛的研究课题利用了不同的植物种类、方法和仪器，但我们都需要高度调控的生长设施来支持我们的研究材料的最佳生长。这些室可以很容易地用于测试各种环境因素（如光、湿度、日长和温度）对从整个植物到分子水平的各种植物过程的影响。此外，随着全球气候变化的现实，一些实验室将配备控制二氧化碳水平的能力，这对未来的碳利用、光合作用和生物燃料研究非常有价值。

This proposal solicits funding to purchase several plant growth chambers, and to relocate existing chambers to create a plant growth facility housed in a new Science Research building that is now under construction. The chambers provide a highly controlled and stable environment in which to grow plants for five different research groups comprising approximately 40 active researchers. Each research unit has an independent focus with various aspects of plant development, seed dormancy and germination, sexual reproduction and genetic recombination, energy metabolism and metabolic stress, and ion transport and nutrient acquisition being actively investigated by five NSERC-funded faculty members and their research groups. Despite these broad research topics that utilize different plant species, approaches, and instrumentation, we have in common the need for highly regulated growth facilities to support optimal growth for our research materials. The chambers can readily be used to test the influence of a variety of environmental factors such as light, humidity, day length and temperature, on a variety of plant processes, from the whole plant to the molecular level. Moreover, with the reality of global climate change, some chambers will be equipped with the ability to control CO2 levels, making them very valuable for future studies of carbon utilization, photosynthesis and biofuel research.