{"id":1964,"date":"2022-02-04T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:25:01","slug":"purdue-trustees-approve-20-million-greenhouse-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/Q1\/purdue-trustees-approve-20-million-greenhouse-expansion","title":{"rendered":"Purdue trustees approve $20 million greenhouse expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —<\/p> \n

Purdue University<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Board of Trustees<\/a>\u00a0on Friday (Feb. 4) approved a $20 million allocation toward a phenotyping greenhouse facility. A component of Plant Sciences 2.0, one of the five strategic initiatives of Purdue\u2019s Next Moves<\/a>, the facility will expand opportunities for non-invasive sensor-based phenotyping and add nearly 5,000 square feet of greenhouse research space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The approved funding supports phase one of a master plan, which consists of demolishing two span-type greenhouses, a work center and storage. A four-season research greenhouse will be built in that space. Conveyors installed in two of the new greenhouse rooms will move plants into the Ag Alumni Seed Phenotyping Facility (AAPF) for imaging and data collection, significantly expanding plant phenotyping capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnabling plants from the new facility to be integrated into the existing controlled environment phenotyping facility will allow more research discoveries related to plant health, nutrition, drought and disease stress and root health,\u201d said Bernie Engel, senior associate dean for research and graduate education for the Purdue College of Agriculture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The College of Agriculture\u2019s greenhouse steering and advisory committees, in collaboration with Erdy McHenry Architecture and Greenhouse Design Inc., completed the comprehensive master plan for the Lilly greenhouse complex. Design will begin in April. Construction is scheduled to start in November, with occupancy anticipated to begin by August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upgrading the research space will add isolation chambers to allow more pest and disease phenotyping studies and additional plant growth and production space to support the university\u2019s land-grant mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo provide just one example, we\u2019ve seen significant losses due to corn tar spot in recent years. With the addition of new isolation chambers, we can support plant pathology research and early detection strategies to mitigate the impact of such diseases,\u201d said Mitch Tuinstra, scientific director of the Institute for Plant Sciences and professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Media contact:<\/strong> Erin Robinson, erobin@purdue.edu<\/a>
Sources:<\/strong> Bernie Engel
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