Agro-environmental section systems and equipment:
- Systems cultivation of anaerobic and aerobic microorganisms and for high-throughput cultivation (automated liquid handler and microplate reader/incubator);
- Microscopies (bright field, fluorescence and scanning electron microscope with image analysis);
- Qualitative and quantitative PCR;
- Molecular typing of bacterial populations and fungi (ITS 16S-23S, BOX-PCR, ARDRA, tRNA-PCR fingerprinting, rep-PCR fingerprinting);
- Bio-informatics platform (which includes the study of prokaryotic genomes and 16S rRNA barcoding);
- Inductively coupled mass spectrometry (ICP-MS);
- Biofilm reactors;
- Growth chambers for plants, fungi, bacteria and insects;
- Light filth method laboratory;
- Equipment for efficacy evaluation of fungicides, synthetic and natural or produced by microorganisms.