WELLNESS IN ENVIRONMENT: Scientists to Make Rice Ready for the Worst of Climate Change

Lloyd T. Evans Plant Growth Facility in Laguna, is set to become a "state-of-the-art" building with 8 controlled-environment glasshouses, plant growth chambers, and plant processing and potting laboratories. The facility's most dominant feature will be a large seed processing and storage facility. The construction of the $10-million facility, named after a world-renowned Australian plant physiologist, was funded by the Australian government. It is expected to be operational by the end of 2015, said IRRI Deputy Director General for Research Matthew Morell. Although there are similar controlled-environment laboratories in Australia and Europe, this new IRRI facility "will be one of the most modern," said Morell. Located inside the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Scientists and government officials led the groundbreaking ceremony last January 27 to this new research facility devoted to studying the impacts of climate change on agriculture. Source: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/82103-lloyd-evans-facility-irri-climate-change