Specialized equipment

• Siebring soil pasteurizer
• Pro-Grow ½-yard capacity electric soil pasteurizer
• Greenhouse Day time
• Autoclave
• Computer controls, monitoring, and alarms for 24 of the 30 greenhouses
  
  • Automated shade curtain, energy curtain, heating, cooling, power outlet
  • Infrastructure for automated supplemental growth lighting
  • Spare computer control inputs and outputs for research-specific modifications
  • Automatic backup generators for cooling and heating for 29 of the 30 greenhouses

Postharvest

• Electronic fruit sizer and color sorter
• Postharvest treater
• 2 gas mixing boards and associated gas cylinders and manifolds
• 8 controlled atmosphere tank capable walk-in rooms
• 18 computer controlled, monitored and alarmed controlled temperature and relative humidity walk-in chambers
• 4 computer controlled, monitored and alarmed controlled temperature reach-in boxes
• Automatic backup generators for the chambers and some of the labs
• Gas analysis room
• Minolta CR 200
• Fruit quality testing equipment
• Freeze drier
• Scales

Sample handling

• 3 computer controlled, monitored and alarmed controlled temperature and relative humidity walk-in chambers
• 3 large and 1 small forced air driers
• Scales
• Assorted reach-in freezers and incubators

Insectaries

• Infrastructure for growth rooms

Wet labs

• Infrastructure for wet lab activities

If you do not see it listed, please let us know what you need by contacting the Specialized Facility Coordinator, Laura Van der Staay, at ljvanderstaay@ucanr.edu

Research project leaders can bring their own equipment onto the center after creating a memorandum of understanding with the specialized facility coordinator.