Research Facilities
      The Department of Agronomy and Soils is housed in Funchess Hall and includes approximately 30 faculty, 50 graduate students, and 90 undergraduate students. Almost 50% of the graduate students are working on Ph.D. programs. The department is equipped for laboratory and field research and has access to laboratories equipped for anatomy-morphology, molecular genetics physiology and systematics. Research facilities include greenhouses, controlled environment chambers, access to off campus units of the Agricultural Experiment Station (over 8,500 ha). Special instrumentation that is located in the department or that we have access to includes:

  • Ammonia analyzers
  • Canopy analyzer
  • Carbon analyzers
  • Centrifuges, including a laboratory for ultra centrifugation
  • Electrophoresis
  • Gas chromatography
  • High pressure liquid chromatography
  • ICPAES (inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer) for elemental analysis
  • Infrared spectrophotometer
  • Kjeldahl systems
  • Leaf area meter
  • Nitrogen analyzers
  • Radioisotope counting facilities
  • Sulfur analyzers
  • Tissue culture facilities
  • Transmission and scanning electron microscopy and NMR facilities
 
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201 Funchess Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849-5412
Telephone: (334) 844-4100, FAX: (334) 844-3945