The plant growth testbed is equipped with several environmental growth chambers with individually programmable temperature, humidity and LED lighting systems for soil or hydroponic plant growth experiments. The chambers use a custom LED research lighting system (6 wavelength channels) providing highly uniform, dynamic (CW to KHz pulsing) intensity and spectral control of the illumination to the plant canopy. The chambers are also equipped with industry standard, temperature, humidity, CO2 and power sensing capabilities to control and document research growth protocols.
The Plant Science testbed also includes a full wet and dry lab facility for complete post-harvest analysis and data collection. It is equipped with a full array biological/chemical laboratory equipment including:
- Cold storage (-80 to 4⁰C)
- Drying oven
- Centrifuges
- Chemical hood
- Infrared-Gas Analyzer with custom 6 wavelength tunable LED attachment
- Chlorophyll fluorescence meters
- Light meters, spectrometers, spectrophotometer, spectroradiometer
- pH and conductivity meters
- Laser leaf area meter
- Plant electrophysiological measurement system
Research Opportunities
To explore utilizing this testbed through a sponsored research or student project opportunity please contact the institute ebess@rpi.edu or Dr. Elsebeth Kolmos kolmoe@rpi.edu
