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
• Phytopathogenic bacteria studies
• Phenotyping applied to plant health monitoring
• New pest control strategies to overcome resistance mechanisms
• Plant resistance inducers (elicitors) in crop protection
• Parasitic plants
• Seed and abiotic stress

Plant Quality

• Fruit post harvest quality, sensory analyses of plant products
• Plant phenotyping
• Plant physiology

Studying in Angers and preparing a PhD thesis in France

• Presentation of the Plant Science campus
• Being able to present a personal research project in 180 seconds
• General information about PhD fellowships in France

Hands-on activities

• Droplet digital PCR applied to plant health and quality
• Bioinformatic with Galaxy
• Analytical and sensory methods to assess fruit quality
• 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
• Phenotyping -Image analysis and study of germination
• Phenotyping - Quantification of disease severity using image analysis
• Low-cost imaging for plant health monitoring

Cap Zéro Phyto Workshop (3rd and 4th of July)

This year, a focus will be done on Agroecological Immunity within the framework of the Cap Zéro Phyto project.

Scientific visits

• LSV-ANSES (Plant Health Laboratory)
• PHENOTIC (instrumentation for high throughput plant phenotyping)
• Roses Loubert (national collection, old rose garden)
• Visit of a rose nursery
• Visit of an orchard with a focus on pest control