• Effect of Seed Spaceflight Storage on Tomato Fruit Quality and Peel/Pulp Mineral and Antioxidant Distribution 

  Golubkina, Nadezhda; Dzhos, Elena; Bogachuk, Maria; Antoshkina, Marina; Verba, Olga; Zavarykina, Tatiana; Nechitailo, Galina; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Tallarita, Alessio Vincenzo; Caruso, Gianluca (MDPI, 2024-03-18)

  The spaceflight storage of seeds is known to cause mutations affecting both their quality and the mature plants originating from them. To study the effects of space stress, tomato seeds of two cultivars (Lotus and Autumn ...
• Selenium and Heavy Metals in Soil–Plant System in a Hydrogeochemical Province with High Selenium Content in Groundwater: A Case Study of the Lower Dniester Valley 

  Sheshnitsan, Sergey; Golubkina, Nadezhda; Sheshnitsan, Tatiana; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Tallarita, Alessio Vincenzo; Caruso, Gianluca (MDPI, 2024-01-05)

  The bioaccumulation of selenium (Se) and heavy metals (HMs) in plants is important because it can affect plant health and human nutrition. Recognizing the factors affecting Se accumulation in plants may have important ...
• Essential and toxic elements analysis of wild boar tissues from North-Eastern Romania and health risk implications 

  Boișteanu, Paul-Corneliu; Flocea, Elena-Iuliana; Anchidin, Bianca-Georgiana; Mădescu, Bianca-Maria; Matei, Mădălina; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Frunză, Gabriela; Postolache, Alina-Narcisa; Ciobanu, Marius-Mihai (Frontiers Media, 2024-04-29)

  Introduction: The level of essential minerals in meat is an important factor in human nutrition and health. Meat from responsibly managed wildlife is an alternative raw material with considerable nutritional benefits. Meat ...
• Relevant Skills for Employment and Entrepreneurship in the Agri-Food Sector 

  Bodescu, Dan; Sîrghea, Alina; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Chiruță, Ciprian; Mălăncuș, Răzvan-Nicolae; Donosă, Dan; Robu, Alexandru-Dragoș (MDPI, 2024-01-16)

  In the current social, economic, natural and geopolitical context, there is an acute need for research on professional and entrepreneurial skills in line with the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing global ...
• The development of value-added yogurt based on pumpkin peel powder as a bioactive powder 

  Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Cârlescu, Petru-Marian; Veleșcu, Ionuț-Dumitru; Arsenoaia, Vlad-Nicolae; Stoica, Florina; Stănciuc, Nicoleta; Aprodu, Iuliana; Constantin, Oana-Emilia; Râpeanu, Gabriela (Elsevier, 2024-03-11)

  This study aimed to explore the utilization of pumpkin by-products as a bioactive powder in the development of value-added yogurt. Pumpkin peel resulting from food processing contains antioxidant components like phenolics, ...
• Bioactive Components, Applications, Extractions, and Health Benefits of Winery By-Products from a Circular Bioeconomy Perspective: A Review 

  Constantin, Oana-Emilia; Stoica, Florina; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Stănciuc, Nicoleta; Bahrim, Gabriela-Elena; Râpeanu, Gabriela (MDPI, 2024-01-14)

  Significant waste streams produced during winemaking include winery by-products such as pomace, skins, leaves, stems, lees, and seeds. These waste by-products were frequently disposed of in the past, causing resource waste ...
• Application of Pomace Powder of Black Carrot as a Natural Food Ingredient in Yoghurt 

  Stoica, Florina; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Motrescu, Iuliana; Cara, Irina-Gabriela; Filip, Manuela; Țopa, Denis; Jităreanu, Gerard (MDPI, 2024-04-08)

  Researchers and food manufacturers are investigating the use of fruit and vegetable by-products as nutrient-dense food ingredients in response to increasing consumer requests for healthier and more natural foods. Black ...
• Red Onion Peel Powder as a Functional Ingredient for Manufacturing Ricotta Cheese 

  Lipșa, Florin-Daniel; Stoica, Florina; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Veleșcu, Ionuț-Dumitru; Cârlescu, Petru-Marian; Motrescu, Iuliana; Usturoi, Marius-Giorgi; Râpeanu, Gabriela (MDPI, 2024-01-05)

  Onion (Allium cepa L.) is a vegetable widely cultivated and consumed due to its rich content in bioactive compounds. Red onion peel (ROP) powder, which is a by-product derived from the onion industry, has been attracting ...
• Pumpkin and Pumpkin By-Products: A Comprehensive Overview of Phytochemicals, Extraction, Health Benefits, and Food Applications 

  Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Stoica, Florina; Lipșa, Florin-Daniel; Constantin, Oana-Emilia; Stănciuc, Nicoleta; Aprodu, Iuliana; Râpeanu, Gabriela (MDPI, 2024-08-26)

  A versatile and popular Cucurbitaceous vegetable, pumpkin has recently gained much attention because of its variety of phytochemicals and health advantages. Pumpkins are a type of winter squash, traditionally with large, ...
• Optimization of the Parameters Influencing the Antioxidant Activity and Concentration of Carotenoids Extracted from Pumpkin Peel Using a Central Composite Design 

  Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Constantin, Oana-Emilia; Enachi, Elena; Stoica, Florina; Lipșa, Florin-Daniel; Stănciuc, Nicoleta; Aprodu, Iuliana; Râpeanu, Gabriela (MDPI, 2024-05-23)

  It has been discovered that the peel of a pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima), regarded as a waste product of pumpkin processing, has significant amounts of carotenoids and other antioxidants. This study aims to identify the most ...
• Northeast Romania water resources management in the context of climate change issue - Iaşi County case study 

  Corduneanu, Flaviana; Țopa, Denis-Constantin; Balan, Isabela-Elena; Balan, Ioan; Boți, Ioan; Pricop, Claudiu; Crețu, Alina; Bucur, Daniel (NARDI FUNDULEA, ROMANIA, 2020-11)

  After 1980, drought became a cyclic phenomenon that has spread over subtropics and mid-latitudes ecosystems and society. Agriculture and domestic or industrial water supply are the fields that received the most severe ...
• Use of fertigation systems for environmental safety of solanaceae species under protected spaces 

  Corduneanu, Oana-Raluca; Stoleru, Vasile; Roșca, Radu; Cârlescu, Petru-Marian; Băetu, Marius; Țenu, Ioan ("Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 2021)

  The degradation of agricultural ecosystems began with the application of intensive agriculture, which cannot be separated from the problems related to it. In this context, it is more important than ever to dismiss any ...
• Environmental concern factors and consumers' purchase decision on the local agri-food market 

  Robu, Maria; Robu, Alexandru-Dragoș; Chiran, Aurel ("Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 2021)

  This study is addressing topics related to sustainable consumption and aims to identify and rank the decisional factors involved in the process of purchasing local eco-friendly agri-food products and to analyse to what ...
• Non-thermal plasma T-shaped reactor for activated water production 

  Burlică, Radu; Astanei, Dragoș; Crețu, Daniel-Eusebiu; Dîrlău, Iuliana-Delicia; Beniuga, Oana; Pădureanu, Silvica; Patraș, Antoanela ("Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 2021)

  Non-thermal plasma is an innovative, eco-friendly technology, being considered as an emerging technology in many research fields. This work presents an analysis of the influence of different parameters on the energy ...
• Implicit chaos in complex systems in the form of period doubling through harmonic mappings 

  Agop, Ștefana; Păun, Vladimir-Alexandru; Ștefan, Gavril; Petrescu, Tudor-Cristian; Agop, Maricel; Păun, Viorel-Puiu (Bucharest: Politehnica Press, 2021)

  In the Multifractal Theory of Motion, in the form of Schrödinger – type “regimes”, non – linear behaviors of a complex system are analysed. Then, in the non - stationary case, symmetries of SL(2R)-type for structural units ...
• Adulteration of natural honey and the nutritional effect 

  Radu, Steluța; Cojocaru, Elena; Cojocaru, Cristi; Lupu, Diana-Elena (Mattioli 1885, 2021-10-07)

  Council Directive 2001/110 / EC (1) defines honey as the sweet natural substance produced by Apis mellifera bees. Honey contains especially different types of sugars, especially fructose and glucose, as well as other ...
• Valorization of vine tendrils resulted from pruning as densified solid biomass fuel (briquettes) 

  Țenu, Ioan; Roman, Cecilia; Șenilă, Lăcrimioara; Roșca, Radu; Cârlescu, Petru-Marian; Băetu, Marius; Arsenoaia, Vlad-Nicolae; Dumitrachi, Emanuel-Petru; Corduneanu, Oana-Raluca (MDPI, 2021-08-16)

  Concerns over the past few decades have focused, more than ever, on finding and implementing efficient, handy, and renewable sources to reduce pollution. Biomass, in general, and biomass from annual vine cuttings, are ...
• Evaluation of keratin/bacterial cellulose based scaffolds as potential burned wound dressing 

  Radu, Cezar-Doru; Vereștiuc, Liliana; Ulea, Eugen; Lipșa, Florin-Daniel; Vulpe, Vasile; Munteanu, Corneliu; Bulgariu, Laura; Pașca, Aurelian-Sorin; Tamaș, Camelia; Ciuntu, Bogdan-Mihnea; Ciocan, Mădălina; Sîrbu, Ionela; Gavrilaș, Elena; Macarel, Ciprian-Vasile; Istrate, Bogdan (MDPI, 2021-02-24)

  The study presents the preparation and characterization of new scaffolds based on bacterial cellulose and keratin hydrogel which were seeded with adipose stem cells. The bacterial cellulose was obtained by developing an ...
• Adsorption performance of modified fly ash for copper ion removal from aqueous solution 

  Buema, Gabriela; Harja, Maria; Lupu, Nicoleta; Chiriac, Horia; Forminte, Loredana; Ciobanu, Gabriela; Bucur, Daniel; Bucur, Roxana-Dana (MDPI, 2021-01-16)

  The initial characteristics of Romanian fly ash from the CET II Holboca power plant show the feasibility of its application for the production of a new material with applicability in environmental decontamination. The ...
• The behavior of dairy consumers in short food supply chains during covid-19 pandemic in Suceava area, Romania 

  Brumă, Ioan-Sebastian; Vasiliu, Codrin-Dinu; Rodino, Steliana; Butu, Marian; Tanasă, Lucian; Doboș, Sebastian; Butu, Alina; Coca, Oana; Ștefan, Gavril (MDPI, 2021-03-11)

  In Romania, there is an emerging market of dairy products delivered through short food supply chains. Although this distribution system has existed since the communist period, and even though more than three decades have ...

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