Screen-houses, glasshouses, greenhouses, poly-tunnels are used to monitor the plant response to biotic stresses under changed environmental parameters by traditional (susceptibility assays) and molecular approaches (transcriptomic approaches). This service is able to provide a degree of control not achievable through field experiments to extrapolating results at controlled experimental scales in order to improving the design and interpretation of research conducted under open-air experiments. 

The facilities are located at CIHEAM Bari campus, Italy.