Facilities

Faculty in the division are housed in four buildings on the MU campus: Waters Hall, Curtis Hall, Mumford Hall and the Agriculture Building. See a campus map.

Additionally, faculty maintain an active division presence at several farms and centers of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station.

The largest of these, the Delta Center, is located in Portageville, which lies in the fertile agricultural region of the Missouri bootheel. Six faculty from the division are housed at this center, which conducts applied research and delivers extension on programs crops of significance to this agricultural region.

The major objective of the Greenley Center in Novelty is to evaluate efficient, profitable crop production in northern Missouri while emphasizing soil conservation, water quality and energy efficiency. One plant sciences faculty member is housed at this center.

Faculty also make extensive use of facilities and expertise at the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center in New Franklin, the Forage Systems Research Center in Linneus, the Southwest Center in Mount Vernon, the Wurdack Farm at Cook Station, and the Bradford Research and Extension Center and South Farm.

The Turfgrass Research Facility at South Farm supports applied research and extension on turf management practices pertaining to the golf course and athletic field industry.

The Enns Entomology Museum, founded on July 1, 1874, holds about 5.75 million specimens of insects, arachnids and fossils and is particularly strong in its holdings of aquatic insects of Ozark streams, as well as the pinned collection of Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and slide-mounted Acarina. The museum is of national and international importance because it is the primary source of insect and arachnid specimens representative of the Ozark Plateau, an area of biogeographic and systematic significance due in part to its high level of endemism. It serves as the cornerstone of the entomology program.

The Ernie and Lotte Sears Plant Transformation Facility contains 12 greenhouses, walk-in growth chambers, a state-of-the-art tissue culture and transformation laboratory and long-term seed storage in rooms for the preservation of genetic resources.

Core facilities include the Cell and Immunobiology Core, DNA Core, Electron Microscopy Core, Molecular Cytology Core, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core, Proteomics Core, Structural Biology Core, and the Transgenic Animal Core. These facilities are housed in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center.