A MICROCOSM FOR RAISING PLANTS UNDER BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC CONDITIONING

摘要

A microcosm for growing plants under biotic and abiotic conditions in order to obtain an environment in which to replicate on a laboratory scale what occurs under natural conditions in a plant or in a plant canopy when given environmental conditions are imposed and organisms intervene capable of interacting or interfering with the plant functions, said microcosm being constituted by an apparatus that comprises in combination two independent chambers, of which one is a hypogeal chamber (1) that forms the part of the apparatus or microcosm that is designed for growing the radical part of the plants and of the rhizosphere, and the other is an epigeal chamber (2) that forms the part of the apparatus or microcosm that is designed for growing the aerial part of the plants and of the phyllosphere, said chambers being assembled vertically on top of one another so as to constitute a single complex and functionally integrated structure.