Plant Growth Facility

植物生长设施

• 批准号: 0200093
• 负责人: Heven Sze
• 金额: $ 13.83万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-05-01 至 2004-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0200093&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Plant; Growth; Facility

This award supports the acquisition of eight plant growth chambers and computerized monitoring system that will provide the foundation of a new multi-user plant growth facility in the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland. The facility will be used by investigators whose work with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, but address diverse problems. These include the function of vacuolar ion pumps and ethylene receptors, the control and function of genes encoding gluconases used in cell-wall formation and remodeling, and splicing of messenger RNA. Arabidopsis has been increasingly adopted as the experimental material of choice for studies of basic plant biology because of the knowledge of the complete genomic sequence and the availability of large mutant collections, extensive databases and powerful new molecular genetic tools. These chambers will increase the growth area available to these researchers by 3 to 4-fold, and will provide precise control of day-length, light and temperature, all of which can affect the outcome of experiments intended to increase knowledge of plant development, physiology and genetics.

该奖项支持购买八个植物生长室和计算机化监测系统，这将为马里兰大学细胞生物学和分子遗传学系的新的多用户植物生长设施奠定基础。该设施将由研究模式植物拟南芥的研究人员使用，但要解决不同的问题。 这些包括液泡离子泵和乙烯受体的功能、编码用于细胞壁形成和重塑的葡萄糖酶的基因的控制和功能，以及信使RNA的剪接。 由于完整的基因组序列知识以及大量突变体库、广泛的数据库和强大的新分子遗传工具的可用性，拟南芥已越来越多地被用作基础植物生物学研究的实验材料。 这些室将使研究人员可用的生长面积增加 3 至 4 倍，并将提供对日长、光照和温度的精确控制，所有这些都会影响旨在增加植物发育、生理学知识的实验结果和遗传学。