About Us
About the Facility
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Plant Transformation Facility was established at the University of California at Davis as a service oriented facility dedicated to providing cost effective plant transformation services for the University of California system. The facility was established through a generous donation of the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
Our staff has extensive experience in the transformation of a wide range of crop plants; specializing in crops important to California agriculture.
This state-of-the-art facility houses six environmentally controlled chambers designed especially for growth of plant tissue cultures. The facility has a media preparation laboratory equipped with an autoclave, Barnstead Nanopure water system, pH meter, balances and a laminar flow hood for dispensing media.
The facility also has a transfer laboratory, which houses four workstations. Each workstation is equipped with a six-foot Nuair laminar flow hood and a computer to allow data to be entered into the facility’s databases directly from the workstation.
Other major equipment includes: a refrigerated shaker, spectrophotometer, refrigerated centrifuges, minus 80 freezer, BioRad PDS-1000/He Biolistic Particle Delivery System, and a Zeiss Discovery fluorescent stereomicroscope.
The facility rents plant growth chamber space on the University of California Davis campus for acclimating plants to soil prior to transfer to the greenhouse.
The Staff
- Director: Abhaya M Dandekar
- Staff Research Associate: Kim J. Carney
Scientific Advisory Board
- John Bowman
- Kent Bradford
- George Bruening
- David Burger
- Douglas Cook
- Charles Gasser
- David Gilchrist
- Richard Michelmore
Our Website
Our web site was designed and implemented by the UC Davis College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences; is hosted on the CA&ES Dean's Office server.
