FACILITY

GLASSHOUSES AND CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT SERVICES

The Horticultural and Controlled Environments are specialist plant growth and ancillary support facilities here at Rothamsted Research.

ABOUT

The Horticultural and Controlled Environment Department at Rothamsted Research is responsible for providing plants, for research, grown in glasshouses and controlled environments. A team of staff are responsible for growing a wide range of plant material, mainly crop species such as oilseed rape, potatoes, wheat and barley.

Over 500,000 plants are raised per annum for a variety of research purposes, including insect food, nutrition studies, plant physiological processes and genetic transformation studies. In addition, a wide variety of plants grown in the grounds are used for sourcing and rearing insects as well as experimental plant material.