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In addition to the equipments available at the Faculty, our staff and students could also access facilities (laboratories) available in different Faculties within our University. Access facilities to the following laboratories (institutes) in our campus are open to our staff/student with reasonable analytical service price : 
Center for Biotechnology – for biochemical and molecular analyses
Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)-for material and structural testing
Remote sensing center (Faculty of Geography)-for spatial analysis
Center for Physical & Chemical Analyses (LPPT)-for specific analytical
chemical analysis

Brief on types of instruments and analyses available in across laboratories in our Faculty :

Elemental analysis ( C,N,P and other elements) using destruction, spectrophotometer and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS)

Soil textural analysis

Carbon and nitrogen mineralization

Physical and chemical fractionation of soil carbon

Field equipments to study carbon budget

Portable gas chromatograph

Equipments to isolate, preserve and propagate associative  and parasitic microbes (bacteria, fungi, actynomycetes)

Equipments to measure ecophysiological parameters

Tissue culture laboratory

Herbarium for many commercial and lesser-known timber species from tropical rainforests

Fridge and deep-freeze facilities to preserve germplasm materials

Equipment to extract and analyse DNA

Equipments to analyse isoenzim patterns

Glasshouses and screen-houses

Software and computer facilities for statistical and numerical analyses

GPS and facilities to analyse remote sensing images

Herbarium of wood sample

Timber machinery workshop (drying, sawing, gluing, preservation, wood-working)

Microtome, microscope and software for wood identification

Bomb calorimeter and equipment for making charcoal

Destilation units for timber extractives, polarimeter, hand-refractometer and gas-chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS)

Fibre measurement unit, pulp cooking facilitites

Equipments to analyse cellulose, sugars, lignin materials in wood materials

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