Crops and aquatic growth facilities
NRC’s research teams provide companies and collaborators with top-quality and repeatable cultivation and growing conditions for plants and algae using the following:
- Phytotron housing 115 chambers: growth chambers and tissue culture rooms in all sizes, shapes and configurations
- Sunrooms providing natural sunlight and supplemental light for overcast days and shorter winter daylight hours
- Transgenic plant center 6000 square-foot facility allows for multiple-line experiments and seed increases
- Crop greenhouse 1000 square-foot facility houses long-term plant collections and unusual plant specimens
- Particle-gun delivery system
- Electroporation apparatus
- Incubator tissue culture facilities
- Continuous photobioreactor capacity for intensive continuous cultivation of microalgae ("Biofence" volume is approx. 2,400L)
- Dynasep supercritical CO2 bioactive extraction system
- High-capacity sea water pumping station (up to 9000L/min), servicing multiple buildings on site; seawater chilling and heating capacity
- Seven conviron environmental growth chambers for controlled plant and algae cultivation
- Wet labs for algal growth media preparation and cell counting
- Intensive microalgae batch cultivation capacity (volume of "Brite-Box" photobioreactors is approximately 10,000L)
- Advanced biomass processing equipment:
- Two high-speed centrifuges (2L and 10L bowl capacity)
- Two industrial freeze-driers
- Instrumentation for biomass and lipid analysis including bomb calorimeter, elemental analyzer, automated Soxhlet lipid extractor, gas chromatograph, membrane
- inlet mass spectrometer, fluorometer, N-analyzer, bench top lyophilizer
- Chemostat laboratory for continuous cultivation of microalgae
- Extensive seaweed cultivation and holding capacity
- Two aquatic greenhouses
For information about these facilities:
Contact
Paul Neima
Telephone: 902-566-7444
Email: Paul.Neima@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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