49 articles in this issue
Claudiu ACIU,Daniela Lucia MANEA
The manufacture of building materials and components, the construction, use and demolition of buildings contribute to the generation of environmental effects such as soil, water and air pollution. The paper defines and synthesizes the impact categories th... see more
Jose Ramon AREVALO,Silvia FERNANDEZ-LUGO,Virginia AFONSO,Federico GRILLO,Agustin NARANJO
Historically, fire has played a dominant role in shaping many forest plant communities. Mediterranean-type vegetation is one of the world’s major fire-prone biomes, with conifer forests among the most flammable ecosystems in the Mediterranean region. Pr... see more
Stefan BAKOS,Marilena MARGHITAS
The use of municipal sludge in agriculture on a longer period leads inevitably to changing of some physical, chemical and biological soil properties. The amount of sludge that can be administered is subjected to a number of factors like: land orography, m... see more
This paper refers to an area of ​​667,400 ha, of which 426,177 ha of agricultural land. This area is situated in the north western Romania, comprising 86 administrative territories from Cluj County. The authors present a brief description of pedologyc... see more
Giorgiana CATUNESCU,Ioan ROTAR,Roxana VIDICAN,Ancu?a M ROTAR,Florina BUNGHEZ
Post-harvest operations, handling and storage of fresh herbs may decrease the content of bioactive compounds and increase the microbial contaminants. Minimal processing can extend shelf-life and guarantee microbiological safety.The present study tested th... see more
Cornel CHETAN,Teodor RUSU,Ileana BOGDAN,Felicia CHETAN,Alina SIMON
The use of herbicides determine productivity growth, but the herbicides are produced by synthesis, out of ecosystem. Misused of herbicides, after a thorough knowledge, they can become dangerous for the environment through the introduction of toxic residue... see more
Felicia CHETAN,Teodor RUSU,Cornel CHETAN,Alina SIMON,Mircea IGNEA
Minimum tillage systems on soil chasing the conservation and efficient use of natural resources, biological and water. By surrendering to plowghing with moldboard plow in whole or in part by streamlining periodic tillage and keep at the ground surf... see more
Mirela Felicia CIREBEA,Ioan ROTAR,Roxana Mirela VIDICAN,Florin Simion PACURAR
The mountains formed of the oldest times an environment inhabited by the humans. (All over the European mountains, mountain people have ensured that feed in the first place by agriculture focused on the animal husbandry especially ruminants. Increasing ca... see more
Ionela DAVID,Marilena MARGHITAS
Agriculture has a major contribution to the sustainable rural development and to the development of the economy of a country, thanks to the implementation of some agricultural technological systems which helps: to rise the organic matter content in soil, ... see more
Valeria DEAC,Ioan ROTAR,Roxana VIDICAN,Anamaria MĂLINAȘ
Long-term experiences with mineral fertilizers, have the role to evaluate and to study what happens to the soil from different areas of one country. Soybean long term experiences have the purpose to create an optimal system of fertilization and amendation... see more
Zamfira DINCA,Roxana VIDICAN,Ioan ROTAR,Eugen MURESANU
Our study aimed to underline the morphological characters of 25 soybean varieties of both Romanian and foreign origin in the ecopedological background of SCDA Turda in the presence of a nitrogen-fixing bacteria indigenous to the soil. Activities undertake... see more
Ioan DROCA?,Ovidiu MARIAN,Sorin STÄ‚NILÄ‚,Ovidiu RANTA,Adrian MOLNAR
Increased coverage when spraying, especially using contact substances, leads to higher efficiency and crops. Conventional nozzles, where the droplets move parallel to the stem of the plant ensures a good covering of the horizontal and inclined parts of pl... see more
Francisc Vasile DULF,Dan Cristian VODNAR,Monica Ioana TO?A
The agro-food wastes could be appropriate for use as immobilization carrier in the production of different metabolites with added commercial value by solid-state fermentation (SSF). The objective of this work was the evaluation of the potential of differe... see more
Daniel DUNEA,Stefania IORDACHE,Mihaela OPREA,Tom SAVU,Alin POHOATA,Emil LUNGU
Pollutants' data, meteorological data and medical data feeds the relational database with information from vulnerable urban areas (i.e., Targoviste and Ploiesti), which will help the running of algorithms between air quality, meteorology and health effect... see more
Adrian GLIGA,Ioan ROTAR,Mihai BUTA,Florin PÄ‚CURAR,Agnes BALAZSI
In this study we analyzed in terms of flora, ecological and pedological aspects three semi-natural hay meadows in Rodna Mountains. They are located in the north east of Bistrita-Nasaud county in the Valea Mare village area. The altitudes at which the mead... see more
Stefania IORDACHE,Daniel DUNEA,Cornel IANACHE,Laurentiu PREDESCU,Dumitru DUMITRU
Emissions of air pollutants derive from almost all economic and societal activities. Due to the concentration of crude oil processing activities around Ploiesti city, which is an urban agglomeration of Romania, this area was carefully monitored regarding ... see more
Erika Andrea LEVEI,Marin SENILA,Oana CADAR,Marius ROMAN,Claudiu TANASELIA
The paper presents the validation and the estimation of the measurement uncertainty for the determination of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil by Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy. For the method validation selectivity, limit of detection and limit of ... see more
Anamaria MALINAS,Ioan ROTAR,Roxana VIDICAN,Florin PÄ‚CURAR,Adrian GLIGA,Agnes BALAZSI,Miklós NAGY
Lately an increasingly importance is shown to complex forage mixture. In Transylvania Plain detailed studies are still required for highlighting the most suitable forage mixture for this area. These are needed also to support farmers, especially in the ac... see more
Dana MALSCHI,Felicia MURE?ANU,Rozalia KADAR,Adina Daniela Tarau,Ana Maria PÄ‚CURAR,Cornel CHEÅ¢AN,Nicolae TRITEAN
Based on the entomological research at the ARDS Turda, the paper presents new research on pest abundance in wheat crops in relation to the climate warming in Transylvania and the adequate integrated pest control methods under different cultural soil techn... see more
Mirela MICLEAN,Lacrimioara SENILA,Oana CADAR,Erika LEVEI,Marius ROMAN
A method based on pressurized hot water extraction (PHWE), followed by solid phase extraction (SPE) coupled with solid phase microextraction (SPME) and determination by gas chromatography-electron capture detection (GC-ECD) was developed for determination... see more
Lucia MIHALESCU,Oana MARE RO?CA,Zorica VO?GAN,Monica MARIAN,Aurel MAXIM,Mirela CORDEA,Beatrice SZILAGYI
The current trend on the environment protection is to use some techniques of obtaining some efficient cultures using fertilizers in agriculture. Taking into account of these aspects, we considered necessary addressing some research on the influence of gro... see more
Paula Ioana MORARU,Teodor RUSU,Ileana BOGDAN,Adrian POP,Camelia COSTE,Bogdan DUDA,Tudor SÄ‚LÄ‚GEAN,Mara ?OPTEREAN,Ilarie IVAN
The aim of this paper is to establish the influence of the relief elements of versants in the Transylvania Plain and of climatic factors on the thermal regime of these soils and on the agricultural management measures. Through its components - precipitati... see more
Robert MOTICA
After the transition of agriculture to market economy the competition has become fierce, so it is very important to increase farm productivity. For a higher production with lower costs you need healthy and productive planting material. Potato producers in... see more
Leon MUNTEAN,Cornelia STAN,Nicolae TRITEAN,Ioan HAS,Voichita HAS
Taking into account the importance of root and coleoptile and mesocotyl length of maize young plants, we considered appropriate to analyse the variability of these traits in a set of maize local populations. The root system development, the mesocotyl and ... see more
Cecilia Violeta NEAGU
Due to human activity, there are some changes in the composition of surface waters, especially near the industrial plants and cities. Wastewater, insufficiently treated, affects negatively the quality of the emissary they reach. The discharge of poorly tr... see more
Anca Dorina PLE?A,Ioan ROTAR,Florin PÄ‚CURAR,Roxana VIDICAN,Agnes BALAZSI
Agriculture is an history of a real symbiosis which developed between crops and man; crops have made it possible to sustain an ever increasing human population. An key question nowadays is how the land can be cultivated and agricultural goods be produced ... see more
Adrian Ioan POP,Teodor RUSU,Ileana BOGDAN,Paula Ioana MORARU,Bogdan Matei DUDA,Camelia Liliana COSTE,Tudor SÄ‚LÄ‚GEAN
The results presented in this paper were obtained in the experimental fields of agrotechnics discipline from the Jucu region in Cluj, on an argic-stagnic Phaoezem soil, with a humus content of 3.8% and a pH of 6.5. The soil tillage system ma... see more
Ioan ROTAR,Florin PÄ‚CURAR,Anca PLE?A,Roxana VIDICAN,Miklós NAGY
Grasslands in Apuseni Mountains are used in a traditional system and several types and subtypes of grasslands were described. Because of the current grassland management and the site conditions appeared certain grassland subtypes which need to be deepen c... see more
Teodor RUSU,Cornel CHEÅ¢AN,Ileana BOGDAN,Felicia CHETAN,Mircea IGNEA,Bogdan DUDA,Ilarie IVAN
Soybean shows special sensitivity to weeding while in the early growth stages until the land is covered, but also in the mature stages after the leaves begin to fall. Once invaded by weeds, especially in the first phase of growth, the culture is no longer... see more
Tudor SÄ‚LÄ‚GEAN,Teodor RUSU,Lucian DRAGOMIR,Paula Ioana MORARU,Adrian Ioan POP,Bogdan DUDA
The area taken into study is located in the Transylvanian-Some? depression which is individualized compared to the surrounding regions from the morphological point of view, with hills and broad valleys accompanied by terraces. In lithological terms, there... see more
Susana SFECHIS,Roxana VIDICAN,Ioan ROTAR,Vlad STOIAN
Soybean is one of the most important oilseed crop production and forage feed, representing 58% of total production of oilseeds in the world and 69% of protein intake from forage. The experience aims assessing the effect of single and combined fertilizatio... see more
Nicusor Flavius SIMA,Doru CRISTE,Rodica SIMA
The negative impact of climatic changes is obviously in the forage production. Therefore the knowledge of biological characteristics, requirements and reactions at environmental conditions of different fodder species which compose complex mixtures becomes... see more
Sorin STÄ‚NILÄ‚
Introduction: The traction forces can be determined theoretically with different relations, or they can be measured in field with different implements. The collective of Technical Sciences and Soil Sciences, from the Faculty of Agriculture has developed a... see more
Vlad STOIAN,Roxana VIDICAN,Ioan ROTAR,Florin PÄ‚CURAR
Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizas act in the rhizosphere of plants as regulators of the processes of absorption and transfer of nutrients. High absorption potential show the involvement in nutrients cycle, reducing nutrient losses across the entire ecosyst... see more
Nineta Simona VARGA,Emil LUCA,Timea GABOR,Marilena ROZENBERG,Otilia MICU
Given the importance and special qualities of blueberries for the human diet, the goal is to extend and develop these cultivations in Romania. The goal of this research is to improve certain aspects of the cultivation technology and water consumption for ... see more
Roxana VIDICAN,Vlad STOIAN,Ioan ROTAR,Florin PÄ‚CURAR
involvement in the absorption and transfer, they have the ability to adjust the permanent and cyclical movement of nutrients in the entire ecosystem. Mycorrhizas have the ability to decrease inputs introduced into ecosystems, but allocation of ecosystem n... see more
Ana Maria VIRTEIU,Ioana GROZEA,Ramona STEF,Alin CARABET,Teodora FLORIAN,Snejana DAMIANOV
Bird's - foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) is an abundant Fabaceae species of grassland, which is also used as forage plants. Lotus corniculatus is an indeterminate flowering herbaceous perennial that, through the vegetative season, produces a great nu... see more
Ivan Zoltan VITOS,Gavrila MORAR,Liuza MIKE,Cristina MOLDOVAN
The partial results from the research carried out in 2013 at the Potato Research and Development Station Târgu Secuiesc on the size and shape of the ridges and the influence of planting density in the case of two varieties and two types of ridges (ridges... see more
Zorica VO?GAN,Roxana VIDICAN,Lucian MIHALESCU,Oana MARE ROSCA,Monica MARIAN,Beatrice SZILAGYI
The fodder production and the exploitation of pastures by grazing is an important activity in the livestock economy of the hilly regions of the Maramures County. Thus, the surfaces of the areas of the Surdesti village are alternatively used both by grazin... see more
Ioana Daniela BORCA,Carmen Emilia PUIA
The height and the leaf area of three potato varieties, in two sequences of vegetation (30 and 50 days after planting) were analysed in order to mark the effect of the additional mycorrhization on the potato plants. The development of the potato plants wa... see more
The achieved production of three varieties of potato, quantified by the tubers weight, in terms of an artificial infection with Fusarium sambucinum Fuckel were analysed in order to see the influence of the additional inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi. Th... see more
Giorgiana Mihaela CÄ‚TUNESCU,Ioan ROTAR,Roxana VIDICAN,Florina BUNGHEZ
Consumers choose herbs by their characteristic flavour although they perceive only a fraction of their volatiles aroma compounds. Few studies have focused on comparing aroma determined in sensory analysis and volatiles identified in instrumental analysis.... see more
Zamfira Maria DINCÄ‚,Roxana VIDICAN,Ioan ROTAR,Mignon SANDOR
tudy of the soil respiration and evaporation of ten soybean varieties in the field conditions from SCDA Turda Zamfira DINCÄ‚1, Roxana VIDICAN1* and Mignon ?andor2 1Department of Plant Crop, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj Napoca,... see more
Ioan DROCA?,Ovidiu MARIAN,Ovidiu RANTA,Adrian MOLNAR,Mircea MUNTEAN
Changing the degree to which animals feed is grinded can be done for hammer mills in several ways, namely: the use of sieves with different diameters, different hammers, different engine speeds.Grain milling energy consumption is influenced by the type of... see more
Aurica SOARE,Gheorghe VOICU
Determine some quantitative and qualitative elements of the dry bulbs production in order to establish the suitability of the best cultivar, due to the fact that the soil characteristics influence for sure the success of the onion crop planted directed on... see more
More accentuated intensification of management from areas with high biodiversity may act to reduce the level of mycorrhizal colonization, while producing a reduction in plant resistance to stress factors. In the context of current climate drought is an co... see more
Loredana SUCIU,Laura ?OPTEREAN,Felicia MURE?ANU,Adina IVA?,Ana Maria PÄ‚CURAR
In the climatic conditions in the Transylvanian Plain in corn usually occurs the following diseases and pests: cob rot strains (Gibberella zeae f.c. Fusarium graminearum) common smut (Ustilago maydis) and rust (Puccnia sorghi); Ostrinia nubilalis, Autogra... see more
Vesicular-arbuscular fungi have a major contribution to the absorption of nutrients from the soil using extraradicular hyphae networks and exploring the soil areas inaccessible to plant roots. Studies on the role and benefits of mycorrhizal symbiosis show... see more
Zorica VO?GAN,Roxana VIDICAN,Lucia MIHALESCU,Oana MARE ROSCA,Beatrice SZILAGYI,Laura IGNAT,Roxana IGNAT
Assessing the economic importance of plants present on the mountain pastures, we can distinguish the potential vegetal resources in the context of improving their economic efficiency. In order to determine the vegetal potential in the mountainous region, ... see more