Cranfield is home to a range of plant growth facilities for experimental work involving plant physiology, plant phenotyping, plant-microbe interactions, and plant-soil interactions. The facilities are home to a unique platform for assessing pilot scale crop-soil systems and sensor development, and they Integrate with our Soil Management Facility, Post harvest facilities and with the CHaP and AgriEPI AgriTech Centres for Agricultural innovation. Included is a 9m high, 300m2 Venlo glasshouse housing an overhead LemnaTec sensor gantry; a 4m high, 230m2 Venlo glasshouse with three compartments with thermal screens, roof vents, supplementary lighting, electric heating and automatic irrigation; and four 10.5m2 walk-in Weiss plant growth rooms with temperature (15-35°C), relative humidity (60-95%) and supplementary CO2 and LED lighting.
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