Facilities and Resources : Plant Biology : UMass Amherst

PB graduate students and faculty have access to excellent greenhouse and growth chamber facilities, as well as outstanding curated living and herbaria plant collections. As the flagship campus of the UMass system the university has state-of-the art instrumentation and computational capacity for genomics, biochemical, and cell biological studies. There are multiple sites for field research and teaching, along with plant, soil, and water diagnostic laboratories.

Greenhouses and Plant Collections

Natural History Collections include the Herbarium and Ray Ethan Torrey Botanical Greenhouse

CNS Research and Education Greenhouses CNS Research and Education Greenhouses Morrill Greenhouses Morrill Greenhouses Durfee Conservatory Durfee Conservatory Herbarium Herbarium Plant Cell Culture Collection Plant Cell Culture Collection Natural History Collections Natural History Collections

Research Equipment and Core Facilities

Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center Flow Cytometry Core Flow Cytometry Core Mass Spectrometry Core Mass Spectrometry Core Biophysical Characterization Core (CD, AUC, light scattering, X-ray, etc) Biophysical Characterization Core (CD, AUC, light scattering, X-ray, etc) Keck Electron Microscopy Center Keck Electron Microscopy Center Light Microscopy Core Light Microscopy Core UMass Genomics Resource Lab UMass Genomics Resource Lab High Field NMR High Field NMR

Field Research and Teaching Facilities

Agriculture Learning Center (Amherst) Agriculture Learning Center (Amherst) Crop and Animal Research and Education Center (South Deerfield) Crop and Animal Research and Education Center (South Deerfield) Joseph Troll Turf Research Facility (South Deerfield) Joseph Troll Turf Research Facility (South Deerfield) Cold Spring Orchard (Belchertown) Cold Spring Orchard (Belchertown) Cranberry Experiment Station (East Wareham) Cranberry Experiment Station (East Wareham) UMass Center for Urban Sustainability (Waltham) UMass Center for Urban Sustainability (Waltham)

Diagnostic Laboratories

Plant Diagnostics Laboratory Plant Diagnostics Laboratory Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Laboratory Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Laboratory Environmental Analysis Laboratory Environmental Analysis Laboratory

Additional Resources

Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Properties Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Properties Harvard Forest Harvard Forest Water Resources Research Center Water Resources Research Center