Number 38 / 2021

GENETICS, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

• GRAIN SIZE AND PLANT HEIGHT CORRELATION IN DOUBLED-HAPLOID (DH) PROGENIES OF A CROSS BETWEEN CONTRASTING WINTER WHEAT (Triticum aestivum L.) PARENTS ‒ Aurel Giura

• GENETIC VARIABILITY AND HERITABILITY ESTIMATES OF AGRONOMIC TRAITS IN LENTIL (Lens culinaris Medik.) ‒ Nariman S. Ahmad, Namdar Moradi, Jwan Gharib Rafaat, Derin Jazaa Mohammed

• THE GENETIC POTENTIAL FOR THE GRAIN YIELD OF SOME MAIZE HYBRIDS, STUDIED IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS OF ENVIRONMENT, IN ROMANIA ‒ Mihai Popescu, Cristina Mureşan, Daniela Horhocea, Mirela Cindea, Stelica Cristea

• ANATOMICAL AND GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GENUS Xanthium SPECIES FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ‒ Biljana Kelečević, Nataša Kočiš Tubić, Milica Rat, Zlatan Kovačević, Siniša Mitrić, Mihajla Djan, Goran Anačkov

• YIELD AND WATER USE EFFICIENCY OF WINTER AND SPRING-SOWN CHICKPEA TO VARIOUS IRRIGATION REGIMES UNDER MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT ‒ Servet Tekin, Attila Yazar, Adnan Alghory

• NANOMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE SOLUTION FOR FERTILIZATION ON WHEAT PLANTS ‒ Carmen Cîmpeanu, Monica-Luminiţa Badea, Carmen Steluţa Ciobanu, Elena Săvulescu, Liliana Bădulescu, Elena Petcu, Pompiliu Mustățea, Ștefania Mariana Raita, Florica Barbuceanu, Florin Furnaris, Gabriel Predoi

• TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLES AND MAGNETIC FIELD STIMULATE SEED GERMINATION AND SEEDLING GROWTH OF Cannabis sativa L. ‒ Hassan Feizi and Elham Javedanipour

• NITROGEN AFFECTS ON RICE GROWTH AND NITROGEN EFFICIENCY INDICES IN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS IN NORTHERN IRAN ‒ Seyyed Mohammad Jafari Kelarijani, Davood Barari Tari, Yosoof Niknejad, Hormoz Fallah, Ebrahim Amiri

• EVALUATION OF THE QUALITIES OF Camelina sativa OIL AS RAW MATERIAL FOR BIOKEROSENE ‒ Anca Becze, Alexandru Naghiu, Lăcrimioara Şenilă, Oana Cadar, Claudiu Tănăselia, Călin Topan

•  Agrobacterium-MEDIATED GENETIC TRANSFORMATION OF BREAD WHEAT (Triticum aestivum L.) USING IMMATURE EMBRYOS ‒ Hanane Aadel, Sripada Udupa, Rabha Abdelwahd, Fatima Gaboun,    Ghizlane Diria, Allal Douira, Driss Iraqi

• EFFECT OF COMBINED GROWTH REGULATORS ON In vitro MULTIPLICATION OF RECALCITRANT POTATO VARIETIES ‒ Mihaela Cioloca, Andreea Tican, Nina Bărăscu, Monica Popa

• EFFECT OF ANTIVIRAL COMPOUNDS ON THE REGENERATION OF POTATO MERISTEMS ‒ Andreea Tican, Mihaela Cioloca, Ștefan Maria, Carmen Bădărău, Monica Popa

•  In vitro MEDIUM TERM CONSERVATION OF SWEET POTATO GENOTYPES USING MANNITOL AND SORBITOL ‒ Mihaela Cioloca, Andreea Tican, Carmen Bădărău, Nina Bărăscu, Monica Popa

PLANT BREEDING

• CULTIVAR AND CROP MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON TEST WEIGHT IN WINTER WHEAT (Triticum aestivum) ‒ Cristina Mihaela Marinciu, Gabriela Şerban, Vasile Mandea, Nicolae N. Săulescu

• VARIABILITY OF YIELD AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION IN SOME ROMANIAN SOYBEAN GENOTYPES ‒ Ancuța Bărbieru

• CORRELATIONS BETWEEN YIELD AND SEVERAL TRAITS IN A SET OF WINTER PEAS CULTIVARS ‒   Ancuța Bărbieru

• THE RELATION BETWEEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR LATE BLIGHT (Phytophthora infestans) AND THE YIELD COMPONENTS (BIOMASS) OF DIFFERENT POTATO VARIETIES ‒ Manuela Hermeziu

• INFLUENCE OF PLANT DENSITIES ON SEED PRODUCTION IN SOME PARENTAL INBRED LINES OF TURDA MAIZE HYBRIDS ‒ Alexandru Bogdan Ghețe, Voichița Haș, Ana Copândean, Roxana Vidican, Loredana Suciu, Dan Ioan Vârban, Sorin Muntean, Béla Biro-Janka, Marcel Matei Duda

• RESULTS REGARDING THE STAGE OF SOME GROWTH AND REPRODUCTIVE ELEMENTS IN Primula officinalis Hill. ‒ Sorina Nițu (Năstase), Manuela Hermeziu, Gavrilă Morar

CROP MANAGEMENT

• LONG TERM NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZATION INFLUENCE UPON SOIL ‒ Nicoleta Mărin, Cornelia Lupu, Mihaela Șerban, Claudia Preda

• EFFECT OF IRRIGATION INTERVAL AND BIOLOGICAL AND NITROGEN FERTILIZERS ON GRAIN YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS OF RICE CULTIVARS ‒ Ardalan Balabandian, Majid Ashouri, Hamid Reza Doroudian, Seyyed Mostafa Sadeghi, Mojtaba Rezaei

• PERIODICAL CHANGES OF SOME SOIL PROPERTIES OF A CALCAREOUS SOIL UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS AS AFFECTED BY DIFFERENT BIOCHAR APPLICATIONS ‒ İbrahim Erdal, Murat Memici, Kamil Ekinci, Enise Sukuşu

• INVESTIGATION OF AGRICULTURAL PROPERTIES OF SOME COTTON GENOTYPES IN SECOND CROP CULTIVATION WITH TWO DIFFERENT TILLAGES IN ANTALYA ‒ Metin Durmuş Çetin

• MINERAL NUTRITION OPTIMIZATION AS A FACTOR AFFECTING BLUE LUPINE CROP PRODUCTIVITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE WARMING ‒ Anna Kotelnytska, Тetiana Тymoshchuk, Mykola Kravchuk, Oleksandr Sayuk, Olha Nevmerzhytska

• AGRONOMIC PERFORMANCES OF HETEROGENEOUSLY GROUP OF SPRING WHEAT GENOTYPES ‒ Ionuṭ Racz, Rozalia Kadar, Adina Varady, Diana Hirişcău, Florin Russu, Nicolae Tritean, Ioana Virginia Berindean

• INFLUENCE OF DESIGN OF THE DISK FURROW OPENER OF NO-TILL SOWING MACHINES ON THE SEEDBED QUALITY ‒ Ovidiu Ranta, Alexandru Gheţe, Sorin Stănilă, Mircea Muntean, Ovidiu Marian, Adrian Molnar-Irimie

• YIELD GAP ESTIMATION OF RAPESEED (Brassica napus L.) IN NORTHERN IRAN ‒ Hasan Yahyapoor, Yosoof Niknejad, Hormoz Fallah, Salman Dastan, Davood Barari Tari

• CATION CONCENTRATIONS AND DYNAMICS IN THE SURFACE PROFILE OF TWO OXISOLS AFTER THE APPLICATION OF VINASSE ‒ Fernando Rodrigues Cabral Filho, Gustavo da Silva Vieira, Fernando Nobre Cunha, Daniely Karen Matias Alves, Frederico Antonio Loureiro Soares, Leonardo Nazário Silva dos Santos, Marconi Batista Teixeira, Nelmício Furtado da Silva, Wendson Soares da Silva Cavalcante

• EVALUATION OF SOIL ENZYME ACTIVITIES UNDER DIFFERENT CROPLANDS ‒ Alina Dora Samuel, Susana Mondici, Radu Brejea

• EFFECTS OF INTERVAL IRRIGATION AND NITROGEN FERTILIZER AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF GROWTH ON YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS OF RICE ‒ Amir Moradi, Naser Mohammadiyan Roshan, Ebrahim Amiri, Majid Ashouri, Mojtaba Rezaei

• THE INFLUENCE OF GREEN MANURES ON PRODUCTION AND QUALITY OF FLAX SEEDS ‒ Cristina Mureșan, Florin Russu, Alexandru Ghețe, Mihai Popescu, Camelia Urdă, Mirela Dana Cindea, Niculina Ionescu, Matei Marcel Duda, Szilárd Bartha

• CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF TOBACCO GENOTYPES IN RESPONSE TO ZINC APPLICATION UNDER CADMIUM TOXICITY ‒ Ahmet Kınay, Halil Erdem, Erdem Karakoç

• EFFECT OF PLANT DENSITY, HUMIC ACID AND WEED MANAGEMENTS ON YIELD, YIELD COMPONENTS AND WATER USE EFFICIENCY IN DIRECT-SEEDED RICE (Oryza sativa) PRODUCTION ‒ Manizhe Kalteh, Hossein Ajam Norouzi, Abolfazl Faraji, Abdol Aziz Haghighi, Ebrahim Gholamalipour Alamdari

• YIELD GAP AND MORPHOPHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS OF RICE CULTIVARS: THE AFFECT OF SEEDLING AGE ‒ Rozhin Sheikhi, Hormoz Fallah, Yosoof Niknejad, Salman Dastan, Davood Barari Tari

• VARIATION OF TUBER YIELDS AND QUALITY AT SOME JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE GENOTYPES IN PEDOCLIMATIC CONDITIONS FROM CENTER OF MOLDOVA AND THE PLAIN OF OLTENIA, ROMANIA ‒ Simona-Florina Isticioaia, Livia Apostol, Gheorghe Matei, Oana Mîrzan, Paula Pintilie, Elena Trotuș, Alexandra Leonte, Valentin Vlăduț, Oana Cristea, Bogdan Oprea, Bianca Furdui, Cristina Mihaela Marinciu, Marcel Bularda

• CAN MIXTURE OF FLOWERING PLANTS WITHIN INTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE POSITIVELY AFFECT GROUND-DWELLING SPIDER ASSEMBLAGES? ‒ Jacek Piotr Twardowski, Iwona Anna Gruss, Michał Hurej

CROP PROTECTION

• RESEARCHES CONCERNING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MAIZE FOLIAR TREATMENT COMPARED WITH SEEDS TREATMENT FOR CHEMICAL CONTROL OF THE MAIZE LEAF WEEVIL (Tanymecus dilaticollis Gyll) IN THE SOUTH-EAST OF ROMANIA ‒ Emil Georgescu, Maria Toader, Lidia Cană, Daniela Horhocea,    Traian Manole, Roxana Zaharia, Luxița Rîșnoveanu

• RESEARCH ON THE SELECTIVITY AND THE EFFICACY OF HERBICIDES IN CONTROLLING WEEDS FOR THE MAIZE CROP ‒ Mihaela Şerban, Gheorghe Măturaru, Cătălin Lazăr, Marga Grădilă, Costică Ciontu

• POSIBILITY TO LIMIT THE WIREWORMS (Agriotes spp.) DAMAGES ON POTATO CROPS ‒ Manuela Hermeziu

• INCREASE THE EFFICACY OF WEED CONTROL FROM WHEAT CULTURE USING THE ASYMMETRICAL TWIN FLAT SPRAY AIR INJECTOR NOZZLES – IDTA ‒ Alin Raoul Roman, Ovidiu Ranta, Călin Vac, Ioana Roman

• AZADIRACHTIN EFFICACY IN COLORADO POTATO BEETLE AND WESTERN FLOWER THRIPS CONTROL ‒ Martina Kadoić Balaško, Karla Neral, Borna Nađ, Renata Bažok, Zrinka Drmić, Maja Čačija

• EFFECT OF FOLIAR ANTIBROADLEAF HERBICIDES ON FAT CONTENT IN SEEDS OF VARIOUS     COTTON (Gossypium hirsutum L.) CULTIVARS ‒ Teodora Barakova, Grozi Delchev, Neli Valkova, Rodica Sturzu, Jeni Cojocaru, Cristina Meluca

• INVESTIGATION OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF TRICHODERMA FORMULATIONS AND ITS MUTANT TYPE RELATED TO CHEMICAL TREATMENTS IN THE CONTROL OF SOYBEAN CHARCOAL ROTS DISEASE ‒ Soheil Orojnia, Davood Habibi, Samira Shahbazi, Farzad Paknejad, Mohammad Nabi Ilkaee

• NORTHEAST ROMANIA WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE - IAŞI COUNTY CASE STUDY ‒ Flaviana Corduneanu, Denis Țopa, Isabela-Elena Bălan, Ioan Bălan, Ioan Boți, Claudiu Pricop, Alina Creţu, Daniel Bucur

MISCELLANEA

• COVID CRISIS AND THE NEED TO ENSURE FOOD SECURITY AND SAFETY IN THE E.U. ‒ Liviu Mărcuţă, Niculina Ioniţă, Valentina Tudor, Alina Mărcuţă, Victor Tiţa

• STUDY ON THE PRODUCTION AND VALORIZATION OF SUGAR BEET IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ‒   Marius Vladu, Valentina Constanța Tudor, Liviu Mărcuță, Doru Mihai, Andrei Daniel Tudor

• CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE OF SUBALPINE MEADOWS IN THE APUSENI MOUNTAINS - BIHARIA MASSIF ‒ Ana Maria Buia, Laviniu Ioan Nuțu Burescu, Iosif Constantin Mateş, Ioana Andra Vlad,    Simina Florica Ștef, Szilárd Bartha

• ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF THE CROP WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEMS: MODEL EVIDENCE FROM ALBANIA ‒ Ionica Oncioiu, Ana Maria Ifrim, Cătălin Petcu, Steliana Rodino

• THE FORECAST OF CORN PRODUCTION FIELDS IN TURKEY WITH ARIMA MODEL ‒ Tolga Tipi and    Burcu Erdal

• THE INFLUENCE OF MICROBIAL INOCULANTS ON MICRO- AND MACRONUTRIENTS ON CALCARIC ALLUVIAL SOIL, BUZĂU, ROMANIA ‒ Aurora Dobrin, Maria Mihaela Zugravu, Andrei Moţ, Marian Mușat, Floarea Burnichi, Roxana Ciceoi

• AN OVERVIEW OF ORGANIC SUNFLOWER PRODUCTION IN ROMANIA ‒ Ioan Sebastian Brumă, Steliana Rodino, Victor Petcu, Marius Mihai Micu

• INCREASING THE PRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF AGROECOSYSTEMS AFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE USING SHELTERBELTS, IN SOUTHEASTERN PART ROMANIA ‒ Marian Mușat, Roxana Ciceoi, Costel Dolocan, Georgian Argatu, Ion Cioroianu