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

Last Updated: Feb. 24, 2011