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he Lehman College Teaching and Research Greenhouses are located in Davis
Hall. The Teaching Greenhouse houses the Teaching Collection of plants.
These plants represent diverse families of plants throughout the world.
The
Teaching Collection is comprised mostly of those plants that are of economic
importance throughout the world such as Sugar Cane, Cocoa, Vanilla, Citrus,
Rubber, Rice, Pineapple, and the like. The other focus of the teaching
collection is to display plants that are interesting or unusual in shape,
color, or habit.
The Research Greenhouse is on the roof of Davis Hall and houses faculty
and
graduate students' research projects in the CUNY Plant Sciences PhD program.
This program is the most comprehensive of its kind in the New York area.
It
is a long-standing joint program between CUNY and the New York Botanical
Garden and consists of 30 doctoral faculty. Research areas include:
biotechnology and metabolic engineering of plant biosynthetic pathways,
natural product biochemistry, medicinal plants and economic botany, signal
transduction in plants, plant-microbial interactions, invitro production
of
plant natural products, plant development, cell biology, ecology,
biodiversity and systematics.
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