Equipment
The Arthur Willis Environment Centre comprises 16 individual compartments, each with the capacity to simulate a range of current environments from tropical to temperate. It is also home to a controlled environment facility and experimental gardens.
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We have versatile growth space for a range of experimental projects:
Climatically controlled greenhouses
For large scale indoor plant growth experiments.
- Temperature control
- Daylength control
- Additional humidity
- Supplementary lighting
- Each of the 16 compartments has 14M2 of growing space
Controlled environment growth chambers
Precision small scale controlled environment growth experiments
- Light intensity control
- Daylength control
- Temperature control
- Additional humidity
- CO2 control
- R:FR light control
Controlled environment room at AWEC
Phenomics scanning, large controlled environment plant growth experiments
- Light intensity control
- Daylength control
- Temperature control
- Additional humidity
- CO2 control
- R:FR light control