Wolfson Advanced Glasshouses

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The Wolfson Advanced Glasshouses at the University of Birmingham is a state-of-the-art facility for accelerating research into a wide range of areas including food security, sustainability, and climate change. Topics focused on include plant stresses, development and evolution with many different plant species grown in the facility from wheat and tomato to oak and ash. The glasshouses provide a fully controlled experimental environment consisting of seven growth chambers with fully automated lighting, temperature control, irrigation, and CO2 enrichment, completing the outdoor BIFoR FACE experiment at Mill Haft, Staffordshire.

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Stephen Hill

Key contact email address:

wolfson.glasshouse@contacts.bham.ac.uk

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https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/facilities/glasshouses

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