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