Phytotron

The facility 

The NIOO Phytotron is a complex of greenhouses and climate chambers. In addition to offering controlled growing and rearing environments, the Phytotron offers rooms to process, prepare, harvest or store experiments. The Phytotron also provides physiological analysis- and field equipment, ovens and has a large stock of disposables which can be used. 

Research focus

Plants, microbes, insects  

Publications 

N/A 

Running period (guaranteed funding) 

Undetermined 

Equipment / facilities 

Growth & rearing facilities 

• Growth chambers 
• Growth cabinets 
• Incubators 
• Greenhouses 
• Poly tunnel & shade hall 
• Experimental garden 

Storage facilities 

• Cool storage cells  
• Stockroom  
• Chemical storage 
•  Substrate and field tools storage  
• Department storage  
• Necessities for greenhouse and field experiments & storage apparatus not in use 
• Sterile soil storage and ovens 
• Storage Technical Service  
• Sheltered outside storage  

Work room facilities 

• Physiological measuring room 
• Nematode extraction room 
• Cleaning room indoors 
• Processing room 
• Insect work room 
• Soil- and crop grinding room 
• Cleaning room outdoors  
• Intermediate building  

Equipment 

• Conductivity meter 
• Light PAR quantum meter 
• Muffle furnace 
• Scanners with Image Analyse software 
• Soil moisture kit (1) 
• Soil moisture kit (2) 
• Temperature, humidity & CO2 meter 
• Thermometer 

Data management  

FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) 

Available datasets

N/A 

Conditions for access 

For access and conditions, please contact Gregor Disveld