More renderings as more research capacity is about to be added to St. Louis' plant science research community.
Danforth Plant Science Center added a $3.5 million, one-of-a-kind plant phenotyping facility to its core technologies and a $45-million expansion of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, which will break ground soon.
The new three-story building is slated to open in fall of 2015, and the expansion will give the Center the capacity to house more than 100 additional researchers.
That is in addition to the Center's 227 current employees, including 172 scientists and staff. Situated on a 40-acre site, the Danforth Center recently added a $9.5 million, 16,520 square-foot greenhouse range, increasing its growth capacity by 40 percent.
The center's original building has 170,000 square feet of lab, office and greenhouse space. The new facility will add nearly 80,000 square feet, housing state-of-the-art lab spaces that can be modified to accommodate new approaches in scientific research.
