Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Botany - DBSV - Varese

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Location typology: Research laboratories
Address: via Monte Generoso 71, 21100 Varese
City: Varese
University seat: Campus Bizzozero

Equipment

  • ThetaProbe type ML2 (Delta-T Devices, Cambridge, UK)
  • Scanner coupled with a transparency unit for image acquisition (Epson Expression 10000 XL)
  • Sliding microtome (Leica SM 2400, Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH, Germany)
  • Olympus BX63 light microscope equipped with an Olympus DP72 camera
  • Stereomicroscope (Nikon SMZ 800)
  • Pressure chamber (SKPM 1400, Skye Instruments Ltd, UK)
  • Steady-state porometer (PMR 3, PPSystems, MA, USA)
  • Portable pulse-modulated fluorometer (OS1-FL, Opti-Sciences Inc., USA)
  • Low magnetic field digitiser (Fastrak; Polhemus, Colchester, VT, USA)
  • Increment borers (Haglöf – 15 cm length, 4.3 mm diameter, 2 threads; 35 cm length, 5.15 mm diameter, 2 threads; 50 cm length, 5.15 mm diameter, 2 threads)
  • RESISTOGRAPH® 3450-P Professional
  • Microcoring RESISTOGRAPH® 3450-P Professional
  • Leaf gas exchange systems WALZ CQP-130 and BINOS
  • Light Meter HD 2302.0 DELTA OHM
  • Microcores Trephor (35 mm length, 2 mm diameter)
  • FLIR T62101 infrared camera
  • Homogeniser (VWR Collection, VDI 12)
  • Refractometer (HANNA Instruments, HI 96813)
  • SIGMA laboratory centrifuges (D-37520)
  • Compact spectrometer THORLABS CCS 100/M
  • Plant growth chamber (3 × 3 m room) equipped with metal iodide lighting systems for potted plants
  • Plant growth chamber (3 × 2.5 m room) equipped with different light spectra provided by LED lighting systems for potted plants
  • Automated plant growth chamber (20-foot container) ZEPHYR, equipped with LED lighting systems and a rotation system for containerised plants
  • Plant growth chamber (20-foot container) equipped with two COELUX lighting systems (System 45 LC) for potted plants
  • Two plant growth chambers (100 × 80 cm, movable) equipped with neon tube lights and soil temperature control systems for potted plants

Head of the Laboratory 
Dr Antonio Montagnoli 

Access conditions and opening hours

Access is permitted to:

  • staff of the University of Insubria and personnel from other universities or institutes involved in collaborative activities;
  • authorised students (engaged in internships, educational visits, international mobility programmes, or research activities from other partner institutions);
  • school groups or members of the public as part of scheduled outreach activities.

Open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.