TECHNOLOGIES – PLANT PROTECTION – VIROLOGY IN HORTICULTURE
TECHNOLOGIES – PLANT PROTECTION – VIROLOGY IN HORTICULTURE
Research directions
- Innovative technologies to protect the environment with applications in horticulture
- Modernized technologies to increase the adaptability of horticultural plants to biotic and abiotic factors.
- Development of technological sequences for the production of grapevine propagation material from higher biological categories.
- Streamlining the methods of grapevine virus-free regeneration in order to increase the quality of the viticultural genetic resource
- Development of intelligent technologies of water and energy use in the horticultural crops irrigation.
- Diseases and pests management in horticultural plantations
- Control of harmful organisms in horticultural species
- Control of viruses and viral diseases in the Initial propagation material, genetic material from breeding programs, and plantations supplying scion and rootstock canes
- Precision agriculture in pathogen and pest management
- Preventing and limiting the crown gall spread in vineyards
- Study of the influence of biotic and abiotic factors on plant growth and development
- Morpho-anatomical-physiological changes in grapevine induced by viral the infection and the application of virus elimination methods
- Climate change influence on horticultural ecosystems
- Biochemical changes in horticultural species under the influence of stress factors
- Obtaining bioproducts with phytosanitary action and/or nutraceutical value
- Streamlining the extraction methods of active principles from various horticultural species
- Assessment of phytosanitary action of extracts obtained from horticultural species
Results
Technologies/Processes
- Procedure for obtaining virus-free grapevine plants, Patent no. 123133/ 2010
- Procedure for elimination the leafroll-associated viruses 1+3 by electrotherapy in uniform electric field
- Technology for grapevine fleck virus elimination by in vitro chemotherapy with ribavirin and oseltamivir
- Technology for virus elimination in grapevines through electrotherapy in horizontal electrophoresis tank
- Technology for virus elimination in grapevines through electrotherapy in a horizontal electrophoresis tank
- Technology for producing grapevine planting material in protected areas
- Restoring the physical and nutritional condition of vineyard lands occupied by monoculture for replanting
- Method for isolation and identification the pathogenic bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium vitis in grapevine plantations
- Preparations for limiting the spread of pathogenic bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium vitis in fruiting vineyards
- Eco-efficient solutions favorable to the conservation and reconstruction of biodiversity in grapevine and fruit trees farms
- Production of grapevine virus-free planting material in protected areas
- Ecological antifungal composition for combating phytopathogenic strains affecting grapevine and method of obtaining it, Patent no. 134423/29.11.2024
Work team
Dr. biolog Elena-Cocuța Buciumeanu, Senior Researcher I, ebuciumeanu@yahoo.com
Dr. ing. Ionela-Cătălina GUȚĂ, SR I, gutaionelacatalina@yahoo.com
Dr. ing. Diana Elena Vizitiu, SR I, vizitiud@yahoo.com
PhD student eng. Ionela Daniela Sărdărescu, SR??, ionela.toma93@yahoo.com
Eng. Ciripan Lorena-Marina, SRA, lorenamarinastefanescu@yahoo.ro