Number 40 / 2023

GENETICS, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PLANT BREEDING

• CLONING AND ANALYSIS OF T-DNA TARGETED GENE OF Colletotrichum gloeosporioides PATHOGENICITY-DEFECTIVE STRAIN Cs16 - Moazam Hyder, Muhammad Ibrahim Khaskheli, Abdul Mubeen Lodhi, Aslam Bukero, Raja Asad Ali Khan, Imtiaz Ahmed Nizamani, Raja Tahir Mahmood, Aamar Mushtaq, Zhirui Ji

• SCREENING SOYBEAN GERMPLASM FOR PRESENCE OF Cda1 ALLELE INVOLVED IN LOW CADMIUM ACCUMULATION USING MOLECULAR MARKERS - Matilda Ciucă, Daniel Cristina, Victor Petcu, Ion Toncea

• GENETIC VARIABILITY, HERITABILITY AND SELECTION OF M2 SORGHUM SUPER 2 MUTANT LINES DERIVED FROM IRRADIATION USING GAMMA RAYS - Endang Gati Lestari, Iswari Saraswati Dewi, Rossa Yunita

• STUDY OF THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF SOME WILD SUNFLOWER SPECIES USING ISSR MARKERS - Elena Laura Conțescu and Florin Gabriel Anton

• INVESTIGATING IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES AND Piriformospora indica ROLES IN MITIGATING THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DROUGHT STRESS IN SOYBEAN: ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMES AND OIL CONTENT - Ehsan Ghorbannia Delavar, Ali Faramarzi, Jalil Ajalli, Naser Nazari, Mehrdad Abdi

• ACCUMULATION OF DEHYDRIN TRANSCRIPTS CORRELATES WITH TOLERANCE TO DROUGHT STRESS IN SUNFLOWER - Angela Port, Steliana Clapco, Maria Duca, Ion Burcovschi, Maria Joiţa-Păcureanu

• ANALYSIS OF KEY DIFFERENTIAL METABOLITES IN SUNFLOWER AFTER DOWNY MILDEW INFECTION - Kongyan Zhu, Haizhu Bao, Shengcai Han, Yajie Zhao, Meng Wang, Rong Zhao, Yujie Wen, Haochi Hu, Julin Gao

Piriformospora indica SYMBIOSIS AND IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES ALLEVIATES DROUGHT STRESS IN SOYBEAN PLANTS THROUGH IMPROVED ON PHOTOSYNTHETIC GAS EXCHANGE AND SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE AND ACID PHOSPHATASE - Ehsan Ghorbannia Delavar, Ali Faramarzi, Jalil Ajalli, Naser Nazari, Mehrdad Abdi

• THE EFFECT OF PLANTING DATE AND IRRIGATION REGIMES ON YIELD AND CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT, OSMOLYTES AND ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMES IN SWEET CORN (Zea mays L. var saccarata) - Amir Khashayar Mousavi, Mohammad Reza Dadashi, Seyed Mohsen Nabavi Kalat, Saeed Khavari Khorasanir

• MITIGATION OF PEG-INDUCES DROUGHT STRESS IN WHEAT (Triticum durum) BY EXOGENOUS APPLICATION OF PROLINE - Hayoun Houda, Ykhlef Nadia, Ryma Bouldjedj, Nadir Belbekri

• EXOGENOUS APPLICATION OF ASCORBIC ACID TO INDUCE TOLERANCE AGAINST SALT STRESS IN COMMON BEAN PLANTS - Cigdem Aydogan, Zeynep Girici, Ece Turhan

• NITROGEN INHIBATORS AND RHIZOBIA CAN IMPROVE YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS IN BEAN - Engin Takil and Nihal Kayan

• YIELD AND QUALITY CHANGES IN BARLEY GENOTYPES DURING HIGH TEMPERATURE STRESS CAUSED BY LATE SOWING - Seval Eliş and Mehmet Yıldırım

• CORRELATIONS BETWEEN GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS AND AGRONOMIC TRAITS OF SOME GENOTYPES IN THE SELECTION PROCESS OF NEW POTATO VARIETIES - Manuela Hermeziu, Sorina Nițu, Radu Hermeziu

• INFLUENCE OF WATER DEFICIT ON THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SOYBEAN GRAINS - Radost Petrova, Alexander Matev, Vanya Delibaltova, Hristofor Kirchev, Bilyana Harizanova-Petrova, Maria Sabeva, Nikolai Minev

• VARIABILITY OF MEADOW FESCUE ACCESSIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY OF THEIR POLYCROSS PROGENIES - Snežana Babić, Dejan Sokolović, Jasmina Radović, Snežana Anđelković, Zoran Lugić, Mirjana Petrović, Vladimir Zornić

• GGE BIPLOT ELUCIDATION OF SPRING BARLEY YIELD PERFORMANCE UNDER MULTIFARIOUS CONDITIONS OF UKRAINE - Volodymyr Hudzenko, Leonid Tsentylo, Olexandr Demydov, Liudmyla Khudolii, Nataliia Buniak, Iryna Fedorenko, Maryna Fedorenko, Halyna Kozelets, Nataliia Syplyva, Snizhana Lashuk, Alla Gaidai, Vasyl Petrenko, Yuliya Rybalko, Yuliia Suddenko

• ASSESSMENT OF BREAD WHEAT GENOTYPES (Triticum aestivum L.) WITH GGE BIPLOT AND AMMI MODEL IN MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTS - Mehmet Karaman, Sinan Bayram, Evrim Şatana

• RELATION OF QUANTITATIVE TRAITS IN WINTER PEAS (Pisum sativum L.) - Ancuța Bărbieru

• PRODUCTIVE CAPABILITIES OF PROMISING VARIETIES OF WHEAT (Triticum aestivum L.) - Velika Kuneva, Antoniya Stoyanova, Jeni Cojocaru, Rodica Sturzu, Cristina Meluca

• CHANGES IN AGRONOMIC AND FORAGE NUTRITIVE VALUES OF RED CLOVER IN RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT STAGE - Marijana Tucak, Tihomir Čupić, Daniela Horvat, Marija Ravlić, Goran Krizmanić, Dubravko Maćešić, Tomaž Žnidaršič, Vladimir Meglič

• ASSESSMENT OF CRESTED WHEATGRASS (Agropyron cristatum L. Gaertn.) POPULATIONS FOR THE AGRO-MORPHOLOGICAL AND THE QUALITY TRAITS UNDER SEMIARID CONDITION - Sabahaddin Ünal, Ziya Mutlu, Berna Efe

• EVALUATING THE WATERLOGGING TOLERANCE OF FABA BEAN GENOTYPES AT DIFFERENT GROWTH STAGES UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS - Ebrahim Mollaali, Mohammad Reza Dadashi, Fatemeh Sheikh, Hossein Ajamnorozi, Mohammad Taqi Feyzbakhsh

• THE IMPACT OF CLIMATIC CONDITIONS ON OIL CONTENT AND QUALITY, IN SUNFLOWER - Florina Cojocaru, Maria Joiţa-Păcureanu, Mioara Negoiță, Laura Mihai, Gabriel Popescu, Laurenţiu Ciornei, Viorel Ion, Gabriel Florin Anton, Luxiţa Rîşnoveanu, Daniela Oprea, Alexandru Bran, Elisabeta Sava

CROP MANAGEMENT

• INFLUENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF WEEDS AND OTHER IMPURITIES IN NATURAL ALFALFA SEED ON FINISHING MACHINES WORK AND SEED QUALITY DURING THREE YEARS - Dragoslav Đokić, Dragan Terzić, Jasmina Knežević, Aleksandar Vuković, Dobrivoj Poštić, Ratibor Štrbanović, Rade Stanisavljević

• AGRO-ECOLOGICAL ZONATION ASSESSMENT FOR SIMULTANEOUS PLANTING OF SUNFLOWER, AND BERSEEM COVER CROP IN GALUGAH COUNTY FARMLANDS, MAZANDARAN PROVINCE, IRAN - Kosar Khajehnabi, Asieh Siahmarguee, Mohammad Reza Dadashi, Parisa Alizadeh, Ebrahim Zeinali

• WEED CONTROL USING ALLELOPATHIC PROPERTIES OF RAPESEED RESIDUES AND CROP MANAGEMENT - Farshid Golmaei, Elias Rahimi Petroudi, Hamid Reza Mobasser, Fazl Shirdel Shahmirii

• THE EVOLUTION OF ALFALFA, AS IMPORTANT CROP IN ORGANIC FARMING SYSTEM IN ROMANIA - Ioan Sebastian Bruma, Maria Toader, Gabriel Popescu, Victor Petcu, Emil Georgescu

• THE IMPACT OF THE SOWING TIME ON PEANUTS YIELD`S COMPONENTS IN MARGINAL SANDY SOILS IN SOUTHERN OLTENIA, ROMANIA - Milica Dima, Mirela Paraschivu, Elena Partal, Aurelia Diaconu, Reta Draghici, Irina Titirica

• EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT SOIL TILLAGE METHODS, PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZER DOSES AND BACTERIA INOCULATION ON YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS IN CHICKPEA (Cicer arietinum L.) - Afife Sinem Uyeturk, Nihal Kayan, Necat Togay

• THE IMPACT OF CONSERVATIVE SOIL MAINTENANCE PRACTICES IN VINEYARDS ON SOIL MICROBIAL DIVERSITY AND ON THE BIODIVERSITY OF USEFUL AND HARMFUL ENTOMOFAUNA - Adrian Șerdinescu, Marian Ion, Lidia Fȋciu, Elena Brȋnduşe

• THE DYNAMICS OF NITROGEN VALORIFICATION IN WHEAT CROP UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE USED AGROFOUND - Alina Laura Agapie, Nicolae Marinel Horablaga, Cristian Bostan, Lorena-Diana Popa, Christianna-Maria Istrate-Schiller, Dorin Rechițean, Florin Sala

• LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF NPK FERTILIZERS IN RICE PRODUCTION IN NORTHERN IRAN - Hassan Jafari, Hossein Ajamnorozei, Mohammad Reza Dadashi, Afshin Soltani, Salman Dastan

• EFFECT OF BIOCHAR ON YIELD, YIELD COMPONENTS, AND MACRONUTRIENTS OF RICE (Oryza sativa L.) - Alireza Nosrati Falahkar, Hamid Reza Doroudian, Sirous Bidarigh, Seyyed Mostafa Sadeghi, Majid Ashouri

• IMPACTS OF SILICON FOLIAR SPRAYING AND NITROGEN APPLICATION TECHNIQUES ON QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS OF RICE AT DIFFERENT PLANTING SPACES - Sarvenaz Yahyazadeh, Hamidreza Mobasser, Elyas Rahimi Petroudi, Alireza Daneshmand

• INVESTIGATION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AVAILABLE BORON AND SOIL PROPERTIES - Fatih Gökmen, Veli Uygur, Enise Sukuşu

• ENHANCING GRAIN YIELD AND ZINC CONTENT IN BREAD WHEAT USING ZINC AND NITROGEN APPLICATION UNDER SUPPLEMENTARY IRRIGATION TREATMENTS - Hossein Vaziri, Mohammad Reza Dadashi, Hossein Ajamnorozi, Afshin Soltani, Saeed Yarahmadi

• EFFECT OF BIOFERTILIZER AND DROUGHT STRESS ON QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE TRAITS IN SOME WINTER RAPESEED (Brassica napus L.) CULTIVARS - Mohammad Reza Safari, Mohammad Reza Dadashi, Abolfazl Faraji, Mohammad Armin

• NITROGEN MANAGEMENT TRENDS FOR AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - Mihai Constantinescu, Steliana Rodino, Alina Buţu, Marian Buţu, Ioana Claudia Todirică, Mihaela Popa, Rodica Chetroiu, Nicuşor Flavius Sima

• THE EFFECTS OF SIDE-DRESSING DIFFERENT RATES AND RELEASE TYPES OF NITROGEN FERTILIZER ON HYBRID SEED MAIZE PRODUCTION - Lucian-Constantin Haraga and Viorel Ion

• EFFICACY OF Trichoderma harzianum AND Bacillus subtilis AS SEED AND VEGETATION APPLICATION COMBINED WITH INTEGRATED AGROECOLOGY MEASURES ON MAIZE - Victor Petcu, Corina Bubueanu, Angela Casarica, Gabriela Săvoiu, Roxana Stoica, Cristina Bazdoaca, Daniela Anca Lazăr, Horia Lucian Iordan, Daniela Horhocea

• RESEARCH ON THE EXPLOITATION OF TEMPORARY MEADOWS IN A MIXED SYSTEM UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF CENTRAL MOLDAVIA, ROMANIA - Margareta Naie, Lorena-Diana Popa, Oana Mîrzan, Maria-Diana Bărcan, Alexandra Leonte, Gheorghe Matei, Mihai Stavarache, Simona Dumitriu, Cristian-Sorin Gavrilă, Bogdan Mîrzan

• SELECTING A SMART CROPPING SYSTEM: FIELD TRIAL EVIDENCES OF RICE CULTIVARS IN NORTHERN IRAN - Nader Moeini, Mohammad Reza Dadashi, Salman Dastan, Abolfazl Faraji

• EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT SOIL TILLAGE ON SOIL MOISTURE, WEED CONTROL, YIELD AND QUALITY OF MAIZE (Zea mays L.) - Elena Partal, Cătălin Viorel Oltenacu, Mirela Paraschivu, Otilia Cotuna, Milica Dima, Elena Laura Contescu

• MANAGING DROUGHT RISK ON LENTIL USING DEFICIT IRRIGATION IN ARID ZONES - Seyedreza Amiri, Seyed Masoud Ziaei, Nader Zakeri

• VARIOUS SOIL QUALITY PARAMETERS AND HUMUS CONTENT EVOLUTION IN CONVENTIONAL AND MINIMUM TILLAGE SYSTEMS - Lavinia Burtan, Manuel Coronado, Carmen Sîrbu, Laurențiu Ciornei, Ioana Claudia Todirică, Amalia Gianina Străteanu, Mihaela Popa

CROP PROTECTION

• EVALUATION OF SORGHUM GENOTYPES FOR Striga (S. hermonthica) TOLERANCE - Wilbert Mutezo and Moosa M. Sedibe

• INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT TILLAGE SYSTEMS ON ABUNDANCE AND DYNAMICS OF PESTS IN MAIZE CROP - Adina-Daniela Tărău, Felicia Mureşanu, Ana Maria Vălean, Florin Russu, Laura Şopterean, Felicia Cheţan, Loredana Suciu, Camelia Urdă

• ESSENTIAL OILS ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN LIMITING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAIN SPOILAGE FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH STORED CEREALS - Roxana Zaharia, Viorel Oltenacu, Viorel Fatu, Cristina Petrisor

• WINTER WHEAT GRAIN YIELD RESPONSE TO FUNGICIDE APPLICATION AT DIFFERENT STAGES AND FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT IS RATHER INFLUENCED BY VARIETY AND YEAR - Valentina Spanic, Katarina Sunic, Jurica Duvnjak, Jurislav Babic, Georg Drezner

• MANAGEMENT OF RISKS FOR WHEAT CONTAMINATION WITH Fusarium graminearum - Irina-Adriana Chiurciu, Daniela Dana, Valentina Voicu, Elena Cofas, Aurelia-Ioana Chereji, Ruben Budău

• EVALUATION OF Beauveria bassiana AND Beauveria pseudobassiana AGAINST Tanymecus dilaticollis - Ana-Cristina Fătu, Emil Georgescu, Maria Iamandei, Marinela Mateescu, Ioana Andra Vlad

• ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE Asclepias syriaca L. ROOT EXTRACT - Milena Popov, Mila Grahovac, Marta Loc, Dejan Prvulović, Dragana Budakov, Bojan Konstantinović, Nataša Samardžić, Tijana Stojanović

• THE STUDY OF SOME FENUGREEK EXTRACTS BY GERMINATION BIOASSAY - Alina Perisoara, Bianca-Maria Tihauan, Lucia Pirvu, Diana Manuela Ene, Marian Pavel, Stelica Cristea

• THE BEHAVIOR OF SOME SUNFLOWER HYBRIDS TO WHITE RUST (Albugo tragopogonis) UNDER BRĂILA COUNTY CONDITIONS - Andreea-Raluca Chiriac, Maria Joița-Păcureanu, Luxița Rîșnoveanu, Stelica Cristea

• RESEARCH ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOME FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES IN COMBATING OF SOME DISEASES AND PESTS OF RAPE IN CRISTIAN COMMUNE - BRAȘOV COUNTY - Cristinel Relu Zală, Otilia Cotuna, Mirela Paraschivu, Rada Istrate, Mali-Sanda Manole

• SELECTED PLANT PROTECTION Bacillus STRAINS INCREASE FOOD SAFENESS BY INHIBITING HUMAN PATHOGENIC BACTERIA - Radu Cristian Toma, Oana-Alina Boiu-Sicuia, Filofteia Camelia Diguță, Matilda Ciucă, Florentina Matei, Călina Petruța Cornea

• DIVERSITY OF CLICK BEETLE ASSOCIATED WITH MAIZE AND SUNFLOWER CROPS FROM SOUTH AND SOUTHEASTERN ROMANIA - Maria Iamandei and Ciprian Ioan Rujescu

MISCELLANEA

• AGROECONOMIC VALUE OF SOME Lathyrus AND Vicia SPECIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA - Victor Ţîţei and Serghei Cozari

• THE MOBILIZATION OF ENERGY CROP RESOURCES IN MOLDOVA - Victor Ţîţei

• EVALUATION OF THE BIOMASS ENERGY PRODUCTION POTENTIAL IN AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS IN RELATION TO THEIR SIZE. CASE STUDY FOR COP FARMS IN ROMANIA - Elena Cofas and Cristina Teodora Bălăceanu

• LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS AS AGRICULTURAL BIORESOURCE AND INPUT TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY - Ionuţ Silviu Beia, Roxana Ciceoi, Marius Mihai Micu, Violeta Elena Beia

• COMPARATIVE STUDY REGARDING YIELD AND ECONOMIC EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN MEADOW AND HILL CONDITIONS, IN THE BRANISTEA AREA, GALAŢI COUNTY - Marcel Bularda, Dan Cujbescu, Lucretia Popa, Nelu Popa, Adrian Pavel

• ASYMMETRIC SHORT-RUN AND LONG-RUN IMPACT OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION ON CROP PRODUCTION IN TURKIYE - Cuneyt Koyuncu, Mustafa Unver, Muhammed Veysel Kaya

• CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYTOCOENOLOGICAL STUDY OF OLIGO-MESOTROPHIC PEAT BOGS / MARSHY MEADOWS IN THE VLĂDEASA MOUNTAINS, WESTERN CARPATHIANS, ROMANIA - Iulia Florina Pop, Laviniu Ioan Nuțu Burescu, Eugenia Adriana Morar-Burescu, Ioana Andra Vlad

• CHALLENGES OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN AGRICULTURE FROM ROMANIA - Steliana Rodino, Marian Buțu, Alina Buțu, Cătălin Lazăr, Laurențiu Ciornei, Petruța-Simona Simion