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International Academic Exchange |
| The laboratory actively takes part
in international academic exchange activities. Lab group members frequently visit the
laboratories in foreign countries and attend international academic meetings. Some foreign
guests also visited the laboratory.
A list of important academic exchange activities of the laboratory |
| Upper left: Professor Dujing Hu, Dr. Keqin Peng met with Dr. E. Epstein, a University of California professor and famous plant physiologist. |
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| Right: Professor Dujing Hu met with Professor M. Forst. | |
| Lower Left: Professor Langtao Xiao met with Dr. David Tuan-Hua Ho, a Washington University professor and famous plant physiologist. | |
| Lower middle: Professor Langtao Xiao met with late Professor H. Marschner, a famous plant nutritionist. | |
| Lower right: Professor Langtao Xiao met with Dr. R. Bell in front of his lab in Murdock University in Australia. |
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| Left: Dr. Keqin Peng visiting Stanford University in the USA | ||
| Right: Dr. Keqin Peng visiting University of California at Davis, USA | ||
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| Domestic Academic Exchange |
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| The laboratory has established
very tight academic exchange relations with some domestic laboratories and is working hard
to improve the conditions for visiting scholars.
A list of important academic exchange activities of the laboratory |
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Upper right: Lab group members visited the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement at Huazhong Agricultural University. The second from left: Vice president of Huazhong Agricultural University, Professor Xiuxin Deng. |
| Left: Lab group members met with Professor Da Luo from Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Science. | |
| Lower left: Dr. Weimin Shi from Nanjing Institute of Soil Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science visited the Laboratory. | |
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Laboratory Building |
The Laboratory is located on the 3rd floor of the 3rd Teaching and Research Building at Hunan Agricultural University. The radioimmunoassay room, atomic absorption spectrometer room, superspeed centrifuge room and the computer room of the laboratory are also located in this building. The College of Science, the Central Analytical Laboratory and the provincial Agricultural Engineering Research Institute are also located in this building. |
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The laboratory has the essential instruments to carry out conventional research in the areas of plant hormones, plant mineral nutrition and other fields of plant physiology and plant biochemistry. These instruments includes superspeed centrifuge, atomic absorption spectrometer, centrifugal evaporation systems, UV-vis spectrometer, ultra red CO2 analysis system, portable photosynthesis systems. In addition, some new instruments ordered are coming soon: HPLC and LSC systems.
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Research Products |
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As located in one of the nation's most important agricultural provinces, the laboratory has a lot of interests in developing new products with application value.These products include crop specialized growth regulators and bioinfomatics software. One of the rice growth regulator, named "Grainfull", was awarded the provincial Science and Technology Advancement Award in 1996. |
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The Lab group members has established a long list of publications: books and text books in the field of plant physiology and plant mineral nutrition, research papers in well known scientific journals and papers in the proceedings international/domestic scientific meetings. The books and text books include "The theory and application of potassium nutrition of plants", "plant physiology", "Advanced plant physiology", "Bioinfomatics" and other titles. |
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Hunan Agricultural University |
Hunan Agricultural University is where the laboratory is located and laboratory's supervising agent. It is one of the provincial key universities. At present the number of the full time students reached over 15,000 and the faculty and staff number reached over 2,000. The university has 2 postdoctoral research stations and 5 majors which has the right of conferring Ph. D. degrees. The number of full time graduate students reached over 300. |
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The laboratory has a green house for propagating small plant experimental materials and a lath house for keeping potted plants. In addition, the laboratory also has some facilities for some stress physiological studies. The accessories of the green house and lath house includes several small laboratory rooms, equipped with a growth chamber, photo spectrometer, flame spectrometer, pH meter and other small instruments. Hydroponics experiments, analysis of mineral elements and sample pretreatment can be done locally here. |
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Tissue Culture Room |
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The laboratory has a small tissue culture room which is equipped with inoculation desk, electric sterilizing oven and other essential instruments for conventional tissue culture and fast propagation. Using the tissue culture facility, the laboratory has successfully propagated some rare experimental plant materials imported or collected by the laboratory. |
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The laboratory is located in Hunan Agricultural University's campus, which is along the bank of the zigzag shaped Liuyang river and its landscape is very beautiful. Not far from the campus is located the famous beauty spot "Window of the World". The downtown area of Changsha city has a lot of places to visit, such as the Yuelu mountain resorts, Martyr's Park and the provincial Botanic Gardens. Transportation from Changsha to other beauty spots in the province is very convenient. These places include the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Yueyang Pagoda and Heng Mountains. |
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