• Red Beetroot Skin Powder Addition as a Multifunctional Ingredient in Nougat 

  Constantin, Oana-Emilia; Lazăr (Mistrianu), Silvia; Stoica, Florina; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Andronoiu, Doina-Georgeta; Stănciuc, Nicoleta; Banožic, Marija; Cujic Nikolic, Nada; Mutavski, Zorana; Râpeanu, Gabriela (MDPI, 2025-06-01)

  Beetroot (Beta vulgaris L.) is a plant grown for its roots, which are used to obtain sugar, feed animals, and for human use. Beetroot skin, a by-product of food processing, is a significant source of bioactive compounds, ...
• A Sustainable Approach: Repurposing Red Beetroot Peels for Innovative Meringue Products 

  Constantin, Oana-Emilia; Stoica, Florina; Lazăr (Mistrianu), Silvia; Andronoiu, Doina-Georgeta; Turturică, Mihaela; Stănciuc, Nicoleta; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Croitoru, Constantin; Râpeanu, Gabriela (MDPI, 2025-01-18)

  With the increasing global demand for sustainable and eco-friendly food items, it is imperative to investigate alternate sources of natural pigments. The red beetroot (Beta vulgaris L.) is a traditional food in many countries ...
• Valorization of Betalain Pigments Extracted from Phytolacca americana L. Berries as Natural Colorant in Cheese Formulation 

  Veleșcu, Ionuț-Dumitru; Crivei, Ioana-Cristina; Balint, Andreea-Bianca; Arsenoaia, Vlad-Nicolae; Robu, Alexandru-Dragoș; Stoica, Florina; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta (MDPI, 2025-01-02)

  In response to consumer demand for more sustainable and health-conscious products, the food sector is increasingly shifting towards the use of natural additives. Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana L.) is a medicinal plant that ...
• Advanced risk and hazard analysis in the egg sorting-packing units industry from supplier selection to delivery in chain stores under global food safety initiative integrated food safety programs 

  Crivei, Ioana-Cristina; Marc, Romina-Alina; Rațu, Roxana-Nicoleta; Mureșan, Crina-Carmen; Postolache, Alina-Narcisa; Stoica, Florina; Veleșcu, Ionuț-Dumitru; Albu, Aida (Elsevier, 2025-02-11)

  This study outlines a comprehensive examination of risks and hazards in three egg sorting and packing units, covering the entire process from supplier selection and evaluation to egg delivery in chain stores. The analysis ...
• Effect of Wheat Flour Integration with Blueberry Fruits on Rheological, Quality, Antioxidant, and Sensory Attributes of ‘French’ Bread 

  Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Caruso, Gianluca; Frunză, Gabriela; Lipșa, Florin-Daniel; Ulea, Eugen; Tallarita, Alessio Vincenzo; Calistru, Anca-Elena; Jităreanu, Gerard (MDPI, 2025-03-28)

  Increasing interest is being devoted to innovative food products enriched with fruits and vegetables to enhance the nutritional and bioactive properties from the perspective of sustainable management. The addition (10, 15, ...
• Yield, Quality, Antioxidants, and Mineral Composition of Traditional Italian Storage Onion Cultivars in Response to Protein Hydrolysate and Microalgae Biostimulation 

  Tallarita, Alessio Vincenzo; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Kopta, Tomas; Lipșa, Florin-Daniel; Gomez, Leonardo; Cozzolino, Eugenio; Lombardi, Pasquale; Russo, Silvio; Caruso, Gianluca (MDPI, 2025-01-02)

  Increasing interest is being devoted to environmentally friendly strategies, such as the use of plant biostimulants, to enhance crop performance and concurrently ensure food security under the perspective of sustainable ...
• High Energy Pulsed Laser Beam to Produce a Thin Layer of Crystalline Silver without Heating the Deposition Substrate and Its Catalytic Effects 

  Cocean, Alexandru; Cocean, Georgiana; Postolachi, Cristina; Garofalide, Silvia; Pricop, Daniela-Angelica; Munteanu, Bogdănel-Silvestru; Bulai, Georgiana; Cimpoeșu, Nicanor; Motrescu, Iuliana; Pelin, Vasile; Ababei, Răzvan-Vasile; Dimitriu, Dan-Gheorghe; Cocean, Iuliana; Gurlui, Silviu (MDPI, 2024-06-19)

  Crystalline silver thin layers were obtained using high-energy pulsed laser ablation without the heating of the deposition substrate. The fluid Plateau–Rayleigh (PRI), Rayleigh–Taylor (RTI), and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RMI) ...
• Briquette Production from Vineyard Winter Pruning Using Two Different Approaches 

  Țenu, Ioan; Roșca, Radu; Corduneanu, Oana-Raluca; Roman, Cecilia; Senila, Lăcrimioara; Arsenoaia, Vlad; Butnaru, Liviu; Băetu, Marius; Chirilă, Constantin; Cârlescu, Petru-Marian (MDPI, 2024-07-09)

  Worldwide, different strategies are being developed in order to ensure optimum conditions for the development and growth of economic competitiveness, as well as for increasing the quality of life and environmental protection. ...
• Evaluation of the Functional Parameters for a Single-Row Seedling Transplanter Prototype 

  Vlahidis, Virgil; Roșca, Radu; Cârlescu, Petru-Marian (MDPI, 2024-02-24)

  The development of an automatic seedling planting system for micro-farms requires testing under laboratory conditions to verify the theoretical relationships between essential functional parameters, working speed and ...
• Tillage and Straw Management Practices Influences Soil Nutrient Distribution: A Case Study from North-Eastern Romania 

  Calistru, Anca-Elena; Filipov, Feodor; Coroi Cara, Irina-Gabriela; Cioboată, Marius; Țopa, Denis-Constantin; Jităreanu, Gerard (MDPI, 2024-05-07)

  Tillage practices govern crop quality and quantity through soil nutrient availability and crop root systems. A deeper knowledge of the impact of conservation tillage on soil chemical characteristics (such as pH, soil organic ...
• Insights into the environmental benefits of using apple pomace for biosorption of lead from contaminated water 

  Ungureanu, Gabriela; Enache, Iuliana-Maria; Coroi Cara, Irina-Gabriela; Motrescu, Iuliana; Patraș, Antoanela (Elsevier, 2024-08-23)

  The apple processing industry generates large quantities of organic waste, presenting a major source of organic contamination. Consequently, finding an effective solution for valorizing this waste has become a pressing ...
• A Study on the Development of Two Ornamental Varieties of Ipomoea batatas Cultivated in Vertical Systems in the Northeastern Region of Europe 

  Cojocariu, Mirela; Marta, Alina-Elena; Jităreanu, Carmenica-Doina; Chelariu, Elena-Liliana; Căpșună, Sorin; Coroi Cara, Irina-Gabriela; Amișculesei, Petronica; Hangan Istrate, Ana-Maria-Roxana; Chiruță, Ciprian (MDPI, 2024-01-30)

  The Ipomoea batatas ornamental variety of the edible sweet potato is a decorative sweet potato with exquisite leaves, available in different varieties. Due to its numerous characteristics related to resistance, adaptability ...
• Adsorption of Ni(II) from Aqueous Media on Biodegradable Natural Polymers—Sarkanda Grass Lignin 

  Ungureanu, Elena; Samuil, Costel; Țopa, Denis-Constantin; Ungureanu, Ovidiu; Tofănică, Bogdan-Marian; Fortună, Maria-Emiliana; Brezuleanu, Carmen-Olguța (MDPI, 2024-04-18)

  Heavy metals are pollutants that pose a risk to living systems due to their high toxicity and ability to accumulate and contaminate. This study proposes an alternative approach to the static adsorption of Ni(II) from aqueous ...
• Quality Parameters of Plum Orchard Subjected to Conventional and Ecological Management Systems in Temperate Production Area 

  Rusu, Mariana; Coroi Cara, Irina-Gabriela; Stoica, Florina; Țopa, Denis-Constantin; Jităreanu, Gerard (MDPI, 2024-08-27)

  Environmental protection, global food security, and nutritional quality are critical issues for worldwide sustainable development. Plums (Prunus domestica L.), well-known for their rich nutritional content and distinct ...
• Biostimulant Effects of Algae Species, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Their Combinations on Yield and Quality of Yellow Tomato Landrace Under Different Crop Cycles 

  Abidi, Soumaya; Tallarita, Alessio Vincenzo; Cozzolino, Eugenio; Stoleru, Vasile; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Abidi, Amina; Maiello, Roberto; Cenvinzo, Vincenzo; Lombardi, Pasquale; Cuciniello, Antonio; Hamrouni, Lamia; Caruso, Gianluca; Balti, Rafik (MDPI, 2024-08-19)

  Recent agricultural research has prioritized the development of environmentally friendly management strategies to ensure food security, among which the application of biostimulants such as brown algae extracts, arbuscular ...
• Effect of Foliar Selenate Supplementation on Biochemical Characteristics of PurslaneWeed (Portulaca oleracea L.) 

  Golubkina, Nadezhda; Amagova, Zarema; Kharchenko, Viktor; Bogachuk, Maria; Makarenko, Maria; Paleeva, Maria; Malinkin, Alexey; Andreeva, Katherine; Kavarnakaeva, Zulfia; Matsadze, Visita; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Caruso, Gianluca (MDPI, 2024-07-04)

  The high biological activity of cultivated and wild purslane offers broad possibilities for utilizing this plant in medicine and human nutrition. To assess the prospects of obtaining new functional food products based on ...
• Effects of Ripening Phase and Cultivar under Sustainable Management on Fruit Quality and Antioxidants of Sweet Cherry 

  Mineață, Iulia; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Sîrbu, Sorina; Tallarita, Alessio Vincenzo; Caruso, Gianluca; Jităreanu, Carmenica-Doina (MDPI, 2024-07-08)

  Sweet cherry grown under sustainable management produces highly valuable fruits, whose quality shows important biochemical and morphological changes during ripening. Research was carried out in Iasi (Romania), with the aim ...
• Improvement of Physiological Features and Essential Oil Content of Thymus vulgaris after Soil Amendment with Chitosan Nanoparticles under Chromium Toxicity 

  Haghaninia, Mohammad; Rasouli, Farzad; Javanmard, Abdollah; Mahdavinia, Gholamreza; Azizi, Sahar; Nicoletti, Rosario; Murariu, Otilia-Cristina; Tallarita, Alessio Vincenzo; Caruso, Gianluca (MDPI, 2024-06-20)

  An excessive amount of chromium in soil has detrimental effects on plant processes, and impairs food security, and public health. The application of nanoparticles may be a suitable solution and an innovative strategy by ...
• 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 ...

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