State-of-the-art growth chambers to accelerate the achievement of a sustainable agriculture

我们要求NSERC-RTI计划提供资金支持，以获得两个生长箱，BioChambers“大脚”多层可达室模型SPC-74和Conviron GEN1000室，包括组织培养试剂盒室。这些最先进的生长室将取代我们停产的生长室，丰富我们的植物表型基础设施，对我们的植物研究和创新中心以及农业和食品科学学院至关重要。Drs。psamurez López、Menchari、Fournier和bsamuanger领导着由包括NSERC在内的各种来源资助的主要研究项目，研究领域涉及食品安全、可持续农业、植物健康、昆虫学和杂草科学等非常多样化的领域，这些领域对植物及其与非生物和生物胁迫的关系有着共同的研究。这些腔室将取代我们的两个Conviron腔室，这两个腔室由于缺少零件或更换其中一些零件的成本高，现在已经停止使用近一年，但它们已经使用了20多年。这种替代将使我们能够继续进行那些需要严格控制生长条件的实验，选择转基因品系，以及需要产生愈伤组织和随后的完整植株再生的复杂植物作物的转化，这些实验只可能在生长室内进行。目前，我们没有其他选择来进行这种实验，因为不像其他设备，我们的城市没有生长室租赁服务，我们可以外包。有机会进入这些成长室将保证我们的学员和未来20年的数百名学生的成功，我们希望这些房间保持活跃。它还将有助于不断提高CRIV的国际认可度，并增加我们的研究结果的影响，这不仅将对加拿大农业产生积极影响，而且将对全球范围内的粮食安全产生积极影响，符合联合国可持续发展目标。

We request the financial support from the NSERC-RTI program to acquire two growth chambers, the BioChambers "Bigfoot" Multi-Tier Reach-In Chamber model SPC-74 and the Conviron GEN1000 Chamber including tissue culture kit Chamber. These state-of-the-art growth chambers will replace our discontinued growth chambers, enriching our plant phenotyping infrastructures and essential for our Plant Research and Innovation Center and Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences. Drs. Pérez López, Menchari, Fournier, and Bélanger lead major research programs funded from various sources, including NSERC, in a very diverse fields of research related to food security, sustainable agriculture, plant health, entomology, and weeds science, areas that have in common the study of plants and their relationship with abiotic and biotic stresses. These chambers will replace two of our Conviron chambers that are now stopped for close to a year due to the lack of parts or the high cost of replacing some of them but served their purpose for more than 20 years. This replacement will allow us to continue with those experiments requiring strictly controlled growth conditions, selection of transgenic lines, and the transformation of complex plant crops that require the generation of callus and subsequent regeneration of full plants, only possible in growth chambers. Currently, we have no alternative option to perform that kind of experiments, because unlike other equipment, there are not growth chamber rental service available in our city that we could outsource. Have access to these growth chambers will guarantee the success of our trainees and the hundreds of students to come in the next 20 years that we expect these chambers to stay active. It will also contribute to keep growing CRIV international recognition and to increase the impact of our findings, what will not only impact positively the Canadian agriculture, but also food security at a global scale in agreement with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.