CF: Plant Sciences Core Facility

Phytotron CLF with closed cultivation banks (CLF fytotron)

Phytotron CLF with closed cultivation banks
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Guarantor: Markéta Pernisová, Ph.D.
Instrument status: Operational Operational, 30.3.2021 11:14
Equipment placement: A2 building, CEITEC, Masaryk University
Research group: CF: Plant Sciences Core Facility


Detailed description:

It is a walk-in plant growth chamber (CLF) with closed cultivation banks and fluorescent lights. The plant growth chamber enables maintaining controlled growing conditions of temperature and humidity with independent selection of photoperiods.

Key features:

• Lighting: adjustable in intensity (from 0 % to 100 %) and day cycling
• Temperature: maximum +40 °C; minimum +15 °C
• Relative humidity adjustable from 40 % to 80 %
• Cool White fluorescent (CWF) lamps with supplementary RED lights and maximum PAR up to 300 µmol(photon).m-2.s-1

Types of cultivation banks available:

• Banks for cultivation agar plates.
• Banks for cultivation plants in pots.

We have 3 plant growth chambers with 12 banks in each for cultivation plant in pots, and 1 growth chamber with 16 banks for cultivation agar plates.