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PLANT HEALTH AND QUALITY SUMMER SCHOOL
26th June - 10th July 2021
6th 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
Registration
Invited speakers
- Carme Quero, Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (CSIC), SPAIN
- Andrea Schubert, University of Turin, ITALY
- Susann Wicke, University of Münster, GERMANY
Local partners
Coordinators
Lydie HUCHE-THELLIER, IRHS-INRA, Angers, FR
Laure PERCHEPIED, IRHS-INRA, Angers, FR