Environmental Research and Innovation Center
The following laboratories will be established within the Center for Environmental Research and Innovation:
- Soil chemistry laboratory
- Soil biology laboratory
- Soil physics laboratory
- Microbiology laboratory
Specific objectives:
- expanding possibilities of conducting practical classes for our students,
- enhancing students’ access to modern research equipment,
- adapting our teaching infrastructure to the nedds of the disabled,
- extending possibilities of continuing second-cycle studies at the Faculty of Biology and Agriculture at the university,
- adapting the research laboratories to the analytical standards of the European Union,
- increasing the possibility of applying modern ICT in research and didactics for students,
- enhancing the scope of scientific transfer to the economic sector,
- increasing the number of high-class specialists in the field of natural sciences,
- enhancing the practical skills of graduates of the Faculty of Biology and Agriculture,
- creating a center that constitutes a research base for solving specific problems, not necessarily for specific scientific disciplines.
Biotechnology Laboratory
The following laboratories will be established as part of the Environment-friendly Biotechnology project:
- The objectives of the Biotechnology Laboratory include:
- To develop a laboratory for plant biotechnology
- To conduct research in such fields of study as:
- Innovation from a biotechnological perspective,
- Horticultural and agricultural practice, and
- The environment.
Accepted indicators:
- Laboratory size - approx. 970 m2
- Research equipment - approx. PLN 6 million
- Specialized workshops - 4
The Biotechnology Laboratory complex will consist of air-conditioned lab rooms, fitted with equipment and apparatus, rooms that will serve as a greenhouse-multiplier and a growing area (to be located on the building walls or on its roof). Research will be conducted in four closely functioning research teams/ laboratories:
- Laboratory of Plant Cultures in Vitro
- Laboratory of Plant Biotization and Allelopathy
- Molecular Marker Laboratory
- Chromatography Laboratory
Research conducted in the mentioned laboratories will Focus on such areas as: introducing plants for pharmaceutical purposes and for the production of food substitutes; improvement of municipal and industrial waste treatment methods; reclamation of degraded areas or their prevention; obtaining of substances, microorganisms and plants resistant to greenhouse shock effects and limiting the use of artificial and mineral fertilizers.
Anticipated products
- Practical instructions for the micro propagation of fruit, ornamental and Energy plants;
- Practical instructions regarding quality assessment and certification of nursery materials obtained via in-vitro cultures;
- Fruit plant varieties adapter for organic and integrated cultivation, tolerant to stress due to greenhouse effects;
- Varieties of energy crops suitable for cultivation in polluted or susceptible areas;
- Ornamental varieties specifically useful in urban vegetation as well as in contaminated or susceptible areas;
- Natural substances and strains of beneficial microorganisms, useful as effective plant protection products or for yield increases / stabilization and crop quality;
- Production of high quality nursery material of previously mentioned varieties (in cooperation with plant nursery companies in Podkarpacie) in quantities to meets needs of south-eastern Poland.