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- Cost: $2.9 MILLION
- Square Footage: 13,560 s.f. greenhouses + grwth. ch.
- Greenhouse and Growth Chamber temperatures and lighting controlled by computers housed in Greenhouse office.
- Overhead automatic fertilizing of plants
- 4 Greenhouses/4 sections per greenhouse
- 1 house contains material grown for teaching
- 3 houses contain material grown for research
- Greenhouse #1 - Teaching (1A-1D)
- Material for Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology classes
- Material for Biology 101 - plant anatomy and photosynthesis
- Tropical collection - many classes use this material
- Propagation bench - used for rooting cuttings
- Material for various classes
- Potting Room
- Students and Greenhouse Personnel work in this area
- Walk-In Growth Chamber
- 9 - 5 equipped with regular light intensity
- 2 equipped to deliver a high-light intensity
- 1 equipped for tissue culture
- 1 equipped for cold storage
- Reach-In Growth Chamber
- 7 total reach-in growth chambers available.
- Greenhouse #2-#4 (Research)
- Material used for research in plant virology, enzymes, nitrogen fixation, and growth, development, and genetic structure of many plants.
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