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The horticultural activities conducted in the Anjou Department are particularly oriented toward added value production: seeds, ornamental horticulture and nurseries, arboriculture, market gardening, viticulture, fungi, medicinal and aromatic plants, cider production, etc. |
Valcampus provides a unique choice of courses in Plant Sciences
- « under graduate » courses : 1 DUT, 8 BTSA, 5 BSc
- 4 MSc
- 3 prestigious French agricultural and horticultural engineering colleges
- PhD school
The Valcampus founding principles: to provide a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses (from 2 to 8 years of higher education) and to help secure the professional objectives of each student.
Valcampus has links with a major research site with 10 research laboratories employ 300 staff:
- Seed Molecular Physiology MRU (Seeds - germination - stress tolerance - physiology - biochemistry - functional genomics – genetics)
- GENHORT MRU (Genetics and plant breeding - product quality - disease resistance - ornamentals - fruit trees – carrots)
- SAGAH MRU (Ornamental plants, buds, plant physiology, soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, cropping systems.)
- PAVE MRU (Plant pathogenic microorganisms, insects, seeds, pip-fruit and forest trees, genetics of populations, epidemiology, bacterial taxonomy and phylogeny, plant disease control)
- UMT « Vini tera » (Grapevine and wine, terroirs, precocity, water supply, polyphenols, quality and typicality.)
- Landscape and Biodiversity MRU (Landscape, modelisation, plastic identification, representation, fractals)
- LEVA (Yield formation, seeds, grain legumes, nitrogen, cropping systems)
- GRAPPE (Quality, sensory analysis, rheology, colour, technology including oenology, waste management)
- CEREA (Aquatic ecosystems, pollution, bio-indicators, biomarkers, macroinvertebrates, macrophytes, genetic polymorphism, biodiversity, population dynamics, invasive species)
- LARGE (Horticulture, strategic behaviour, business intelligence, quality)
