Plant culture

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The plant culture service of IPSiM profits from a powerful device of culture of plants divided into seven main categories

Staff
Expertise
The area of expertise of the plant culture service is:

  • The greenhouse plant culture
  • The management and traceability of greenhouse crops
  • The maintenance of the culture devices
  • The climate regulation of the culture devices
  • The rules and regulation related to the culture of transgenic plants
Equipment / Technologies
  • 11 growth chambers: they represent 100 m² of growth surface. They are reserved for use in standard climatic conditions adapted to the plants studied in the laboratory.
  • 3 culture cabinets: they give users the opportunity to grow their plants in specific climatic conditions.
  • 4 in vitro culture cabinets: they are dedicated to in vitro culture and allow a rigorous control of the climatic conditions
  • 3 perfectly identical phytotronic cells: they allow the realization of comparative experiments by the modification of a single parameter of the climate.

All these installations are powered by chilled water networks or direct expansion, and are based on a PID (proportional integral derivative) type regulation, allowing temperature control at +/- 0.5 ° C ( in a temperature range from 5 ° C to 45 ° C), the relative humidity at +/- 5% (in a range from 15% Hr to 95% Hr), and the photoperiod.

  • 2 in vitro growth chambers : they represent a culture surface area of 20m ². They also involve PID type regulation.
  • 1 seed storage chamber of 6.5 m2 set at 8 ° C and 35% relative humidity (ie 2.3 g of water per kg of air) to optimize the preservation of seeds produced by the laboratory.
  • 1 S2 type greenhouse of 350 m2 divided into 6 compartments of 50 m2 each, of which 4 are dedicated to the culture of Arabidopsis thaliana and the 2 others are dedicated to other species.

 

training

The plant culture service has for constant mission to inform the staff of IPSiM regarding the culture of plant under greenhouse containment and the culture devices associated.

News
  • Installation of a new chiller for the thermal regulation of hydroponics chambers.
  • Opening on December 4th 2017 of the second compartment in the greenhouse for plants other than Arabidopsis thaliana.
Publications
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