Meadowlark Hills is taking a trip to the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center Wednesday, June 8. The group will have the opportunity to tour the complex’s key features that includes several growth chambers, freezers and laboratory pods in which researchers are able to control the growth environment of wheat plants from emergence to maturity.

Four separate greenhouses have been built on the north side of the laboratory, one of which is air conditioned, allowing research to take place even in the middle of hot Kansas summers. The research facility is also home to some of the operations of K-State’s world-renowned Wheat Genetics and Genomics Resource Center (WGGRC).

A sign up sheet is available at the Hospitality Desk in the Blue Book and the group will depart from the Village Entrance at 9:50 a.m. The cost for transportation is $3 per person.