Plant Phenotyping Laboratory

这笔赠款支持建立一个植物表型实验室，用于植物生物学的跨学科合作研究。多伦多大学密西索加大学(UTM)生物系的植物生物学将从基因到生态系统的研究整合在一起。植物表型通过分析植物在生理、生化和代谢物水平上的表现，促进了这种整合。它提供了了解植物如何交流和对不断变化的环境做出反应的手段。最近，植物表型已经成为验证高通量基因组、转录组和蛋白质组研究的关键环节。植物表型实验室对于扩大该部门在植物表型鉴定方面的现有专业知识至关重要，因为它增加了高通量表征植物表现，特别是光合作用表现和碳代谢的能力。改进后的植物表型实验室将大大加强该部的合作研究，并有助于扩大与加拿大和国际上其他机构的合作。

This grant supports the establishment of a Plant Phenotyping Laboratory for interdisciplinary collaborative research in plant biology. Plant biology in the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) integrates research from genes to ecosystems. Plant phenotyping contributes to this integration through the analysis of plant performance at the physiological, biochemical and metabolite levels. It provides the means to understand how plants communicate and respond to the ever changing environment. More recently, plant phenotyping has become a crucial link to validation of high throughput genome, transcriptome and proteome studies. The Plant Phenotpying Laboratory is critically essential to expand the departments existing expertise in characterizing plant phenotypes by adding the capacity for high-throughput characterization of plant performance and especially photosynthetic performance and carbon metabolism. The improved plant phenotyping laboratory will significantly enhance the departments collaborative research and help to expand collaborations with other institutions in Canada and internationally.