Facility

The Plant Transformation Lab is a core facility designed for plant tissue culture and transformation. There are two gene guns, laminar flow transfer cabinets, floor shakers for cell suspension cultures, and plant growth and tissue culture chambers. In addition to the main area, there is a microscope room equipped with a fluorescence microscope and several dissecting microscopes.

Lab Equipment

laminar flow transfer hoods
Laminar Flow Hoods
Plant growth and tissue culture chambers
Plant Growth and Tissue Culture Chambers
Nano-drop 2000c spectrophotometer
Nano-drop 2000c Spectrophotometer
Nikon SMZ-1500 fluorescence optical microscope
Nikon SMZ-1500 Fluorescence Optical Microscope
DNA engine
DNA Engine
Bio-Rad PDS-1000/He particle delivery system
Bio-Rad PDS-1000/He Particle Delivery System
Kedong Da

Contact

Dr. Kedong Da

Director of the Plant Transformation Laboratory in NC State’s Phytotron building.

kda@ncsu.edu