Plant growth chambers

该提案要求提供资金，用于购买两个受控环境植物生长室，用于针叶树和棉白杨叶杨树（树苗/树苗）的生理驯化和适应研究。生长室将允许进行需要高度控制几个环境因素的实验，包括温度，湿度，光照强度和日照长度（光周期）。这种环境控制在温室中是不可能的。目前，莱斯布里奇大学（UL）的植物生长室很少，现有的植物生长室已被充分利用。缺乏受控环境空间在一定程度上反映了UL在过去十年中植物生物学研究的快速增长，以及校园内容纳任何新室的物理空间的限制。最近开放的UL阿尔伯塔水和环境科学大楼（AWESB）包括申请人的新研究实验室下方的一大片区域，该区域目前是空的，但分配给新的生长室，以满足我们不断扩大的研究需求。这笔赠款将使购买头两个室为这个新提出的植物生长设施。申请人（L.B.）Flanagan）和共同申请人（S.B. Rood）都有完善的，国内和国际公认的，由NSERC发现赠款和其他几个资金来源支持的研究计划。我们的计划培养各级新的研究人员，包括本科生和研究生，博士后研究员和技术人员。所要求的植物生长室将大大加强我们研究小组中所有人员的研究和培训。

This proposal requests funds to purchase two controlled environment plant growth chambers to be used in studies of physiological acclimation and adaptation of conifer and cottonwood trees (tree seedlings/ saplings). The growth chambers will allow experiments to be conducted that require a high degree of control over several environmental factors including, temperature, humidity, light intensity and day length (photoperiod). Such environmental control is not possible in greenhouses. Currently there are few plant growth chambers available at University of Lethbridge (UL), and those that exist are fully used. The lack of controlled environment space reflects, in part, the rapid growth of plant biology research at UL over the last decade, and limitations in physical space on campus to house any new chambers. The recently opened UL Alberta Water and Environment Science building (AWESB) includes a large area below the applicants' new research labs that is currently empty, but allocated for new growth chambers to serve our expanding research needs. This grant would enable the purchase of the first two chambers for this newly proposed plant growth facility. The applicant (L.B. Flanagan) and co-applicant (S.B. Rood) both have well established, nationally and internationally recognized, research programs supported by NSERC Discovery grants and several other funding sources. Our programs train new researchers at all levels including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and technicians. The requested plant growth chambers will greatly enhance research and training across the complete range of personnel present in our research groups.