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-: We're in the Greenhouse Innovation Center.
These are state of the art greenhouses
employing LED greenhouse lights.
And the light spectrum is actually tuned in
to what the plant actually needs.
The Greenhouse Innovation Center
was built around a unique piece of equipment.
-: This system was envisioned by a group of faculty.
Dan: This system has plants on conveyors
moved around the greenhouse to nutrient and water stations.
And then, at specific times they move out of the greenhouse,
into the attached head house
and through high-resolution camera bays.
Harkamal: Where we can take measurements
that are barely noticeable with naked eye.
-: There's only a few facilities like this in the world,
and UNL is one of the first universities
in the United States to have a facility like this.
-: For someone like me, and researchers who are
interested in how plants respond to their environment,
or how their development gets affected,
a system like this really accelerates our research,
so we can do a lot more very, very quickly,
and more precisely than we could without such a system.
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