PLANT HEALTH AND QUALITY SUMMER SCHOOL
26^th June - 10^th July 2021

6^th edition

60 hours - 6 ECTS delivered

The program relies on interactive classes, conferences including international speakers and hands-on activities.

Sessions

Plant Health :

• Plant pathology : new technologies for pathogen detection
• Phenotyping applied to plant health monitoring
• Insect Chemical ecology for pest control
• Plant resistance inducers (elicitors) in crop protection
• Parasitic plants
• Seed microbiota and seed-borne pathogens

Plant Quality :

• Fruit post harvest quality, sensory analyses of plant products
• Architecture characterization of ornamental plant
• Plant physiology

Studying in Angers and preparing a PhD thesis in France

• Presentation of the Plant Science campus
• Short presentations of students' personal research projects
• Being a PhD student in Angers, France (to be confirmed):
  • General information about PhD fellowships
  • Friendly evening with local doctoral and post-doctoral students (Greenyd association)

Hands-on activities

• Droplet digital PCR applied to plant health and quality
• Bioinformatic with Galaxy
• Analytical and sensory methods to assess fruit quality
• Aphid olfactory choice experiments
• Electrophysiological recordings of insect antennae
• Nutritional choice in a parasitoid
• qPCR - a methodology to quantify defense gene expression in plant
• Characterization of parasitic plant- host plant relationship
• Plant photosynthetic activity
• Architectural analysis of plant by 3D digitization
• Phenotyping -Image analysis and study of germination
• Phenotyping - Quantification of disease severity using image analysis
• Low-cost imaging for plant health monitoring

Scientific visits

• SNES GEVES (Variety and Seed Study and Control Group)
• LSV-ANSES (Plant Health Laboratory)
• CIRM-CFBP (French Collection of Plant associated Bacteria)
• PHENOTIC (instrumentation for high throughput plant phenotyping)
• ITEIPMAI (French research institute for perfume, medicinal and aromatic plants)
• Roses Loubert (national collection, old rose garden)

Testimony 2018

Gjjs Vincent, University of Wageningen, Plant Health and Quality Summer School 2018