RESEARCH FACILITIES


Wide range of field equipment for sampling all components of aquatic life.

In situ environmental monitoring equipment.

Complete analytical laboratory for chemical determinations.

Advanced research microscope.

Atomic adsorption and ultraviolet spectrophotometer.

Facilities for identification of fungal pathogens, particularly Fusarium, Ganoderma and Colletotrichum spp.

Maintenance and storage facilities (which include freeze-drying and cryopreservation of fungal species.

Equipment for the preparation of histopathological slides.

Facilities for testing virulence/pathogenicity of fungal species in nurseries/glasshouses and electrophoretic analyses of fungal species.

Excellent culture collection of fungal species from plants, seeds and soil.

Intensive mathematical and statistical analysis computing support. Software application packages available include SAS, STATGRAPHIC, STATVIEW and KALEIDAGRAPH.

Collection of aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates.

Herbarium specializing in herbacious species and plants of limestone areas and mountains.

Fully equipped microtechnique laboratory for plant anatomy.

Microscope slide collection including reference of pollen of 100 species of Malaysian bee plants.

Facilities for the screening and evaluation of desirable genotypes for enhanced capabilities.

Units for electrophoretic analyses of DNA (microsatellites, AFLP, RFLP, RAPD) and protein level (allozymes) genetic markers.

High voltage isoelectric focusing units.

Thermal cycler for polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Gas chromatography (GC).

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

Biohazard vertical laminar flow.

Well-equipped ecological laboratory facilities which include soil analysis, flame photometry, leaf area meter and ballistic bomb calorimetry.

Facilities for analyses of enzyme activities and biochemical compounds.

Access to gene-transformation facilities.

Greenhouse facilities.

Plant tissue culture and cell culture facilities.

Access to the university's farm facilities, the Electron Microscopy Unit and Nutrition Laboratory for proximate analyses of feed materials.



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