Plant Health and Quality Summer School Courses

The program relies on interactive classes, workshops animated by 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:
  • 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

Sucseed Workshop (July 4th and 5th)

This year, a focus will be done on seed protection and stimulation within the framework of the SUCSEED project

Scientific visits

• LSV-ANSES (Plant Health Laboratory)
• PHENOTIC (instrumentation for high throughput plant phenotyping)
• Roses Loubert (national collection, old rose garden)