Three laboratories located at the Department of Biology of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, along with two laboratories and two greenhouses at the Botanical Garden of Rome Tor Vergata, are utilized for conducting studies in cellular and molecular biology of plant systems subjected to biotic and abiotic stress. These research areas are highly specialized for the analysis of biomolecules and equipped with basic instrumentation. Among these facilities, laminar flow hoods, chemical hoods, centrifuges, portable UV lamps, precision balances, straight branch calipers, mortars and pestles, homogenizers, optical microscopes (Nikon Eclipse E100 equipped with ProgRes C10 camera, JENOPTIC), and an inverted microscope (Axio Observer 7, ZEISS) equipped with a polarizing filter and image analysis systems are available. Additionally, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) instrumentation with photodiode array and mass spectrometer (HPLC system with LC-20AD pump, CBM-20A controller, SIL-20a HT autosampler, and SPD-M20A photodiode array detector, Shimadzu, Tokyo, Japan), specific incubators for in vitro plant cultures, a gas chromatograph coupled with a mass spectrometer (GC-MS QP2010 system, Shimadzu, Japan), a Biorad thermal cycler (ICycler), an Applied Biosystems StepOne Plus Real-Time PCR, an ABI PRISM Avant 3100 automatic sequencer, a DNA sequencer (Genetic Analyzer, Applied Biosystem), and an Illumina NextSeq 550 platform are precision devices available within the same facility.
