Imperial College London

A futuristic £1 million rooftop ‘greenhouse’ has been created at Imperial College London to allow scientists to grow large quantities of plants for experiments ranging from developing new sources of biofuels to helping sequence the tomato genome.

The new Imperial GroDome is the only rooftop facility of its kind in London. It provides plant scientists with over 200 square metres of temperature and light controlled growing space for a variety of plant species, allowing them to carry out large-scale plant experiments.

The GroDome is the part of a development project to support plant science research at Imperial, which has also seen the refurbishment of laboratories and the installation of controlled environment plant growth rooms for smaller plants, as well as imaging labs and mass spectrometry facilities.

Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk