CPES SV S6 profile Plant biology

After defining intensive agriculture and analyzing its risks/benefits, this module will enable students to reflect on the various possible ways of moving agriculture towards an agroecological approach. Examples include biopesticides, ecological intensification and soil management. A visit to a company involved in sustainable agriculture is also organized. The sites visited vary from year to year, depending on the wishes of the students and the availability of the companies. Examples of visits made as part of this module: Bayer, Vilmorin, Geves, CTIFL, sudExpé...

Licenciales.

Students will be asked to present a project or business start-up developing innovative proposals for changing cultivation practices, or any other use of plant products to reduce environmental impact.

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This course presents the major functions of carbon, mineral and water nutrition in plants, which ensure their autotrophy (the production of their own biomass). It will provide the basis for understanding the fundamental mechanisms of nutrient absorption, distribution and assimilation. The course will be divided into two main parts, one dedicated to mineral nutrition and the other to carbon nutrition.

After a review of the properties of plant membranes and walls and the concepts of transmembrane transport, the part of the course dedicated to mineral nutrition will teach the mechanisms of water absorption and circulation, root uptake, subcellular compartmentalization and mineral distribution, as well as nitrogen assimilative metabolism.

The chapter dedicated to carbon nutrition will present the functioning of the chloroplast in the plant cell, photosynthesis (capture of light energy and synthesis of the first carbon compounds), the production of organic compounds and their allocation in the plant.

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This UE is a module designed to introduce students to scientific research in fundamental or applied plant agro-sciences. Students must complete an internship of 10 weeks or more (which may continue over the summer) in a research laboratory (CNRS, INRAE, IRD, CIRAD), in an applied research organization such as GEVES, CTIFL, SudExpe, Serfel, IFV or in a private company such as Staphyt, AgroXp, Vilmorin. Montpellier offers a wide range of internship opportunities in this field.

This is a module for integration into the professional world, enabling students to make contact with players in the world of plant-based Agro-Sciences:

• apply the techniques learned in the various courses of the BiPAgro Bachelor's degree.
• exposure to the professional world
• develop your own professional project and enhance your CV

Students write a dissertation which they defend in front of a jury made up of teacher-researchers, researchers and/or field technicians/engineers. 

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