Controlled growth facilities

We have excellent glasshouse & growth cabinets to PC2 standard, 2 phytotron (light control) glasshouses, a climate controlled (temperature, humidity, CO2) 6 cell glasshouse, 24 growth cabinets, & state-of-the-art photomorphogenesis facilities (dark rooms LED, blue, red, far-red lighting)
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Plant Hormone Methods

The School is ideally equipped to identify and quantify plant hormones, with high performance liquid chromatographs (HPLCs), a large collection of hormone standards, and access to sophisticated mass spectrometers with the sensitivity to detect less than one billionth of a gram of plant hormone.

Molecular Genetics Laboratory

In addition to all the usual molecular equipment the laboratory has a Gel-Scan 2000 for DNA fingerprinting and access to a capillary DNA sequencer, Real-Time PCR machines, microarray reader & dHPLC mutation analyser. The laboratory is one of the most productive research facilities in the University.

Plant Tissue Culture

The School is ideally equipped with plant tissue culture facilities to investigate the growth of plants in in vitro conditions for conservation and/or commercialisation.