Facilities

Faculty from seven academic units housed at the UF/IFAS main campus in Gainesville and the Citrus Research and Education Center (C-REC), Lake Alfred, FL contribute to CTC. We work closely with the Applied AI Agriculture Center at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center and the Protein Knowledge Integration team to rapidly advance plant breeding. Extensive research is underway at various labs across UF. 

The following equipment and facilities highlight our capacity to rapidly address industry needs.  

Technologies

• Agrobacterium-mediated
• Biolistic
• Protoplast
• TALENS
• CRISPR
• RNAi
• Viral vector-mediated

Lab Resources

• Growth chambers
• Tissue culture chambers
• Acclimation chambers
• Growth room 
• BL2 certified greenhouses
• Laminar flow hoods
• Incubators
• Photo-documentation system
• Biolistic PDS-1000/He system

Equipment

• Plant Innovation 
• Soil Health Testing
• Plant Disease and Diagnostic Clinic