Ana Cornelia Butcaru

• PhD
• Researcher at University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest

The stability of slopes is a critical challenge in various civil engineering projects, such as embankments, cut-slopes, landfills, dams, transportation infrastructure, and riverbank restoration. Stabilizing slopes using bioengineering methods is a sustainable approach that limits the negative impact of engineering works; such methods should be impl...

The circular economy with compost fertilization is included in the sustainable orchard paradigm, creating a holistic production ecosystem. Modern orchards are mostly intensive and super-intensive, requiring different rootstocks. This research presents the response to compost fertilization of two specific pear rootstocks (quince ‘CTS 212’ and ‘Farol...

The stability of slopes is a critical challenge in various civil engineering projects, such as embankments, cut-slopes, landfills, dams, transportation infrastructure, and riverbank restoration. Stabilizing slopes using bioengineering methods is a sustainable approach that limits the negative impact of engineering works; such methods should be impl...

The circular economy with compost fertilization is included in the sustainable orchard paradigm, creating a holistic production ecosystem. Modern orchards are mostly intensive and super-intensive, requiring different rootstocks. This research presents the response to compost fertilization of two specific pear rootstocks (quince ‘CTS 212’ and ‘Farol...

The priority objectives in pear breeding programs remain creating cultivars with high-quality fruits and resistance to the main diseases and pests. In Romania breeding objectives were oriented toward the creation of fire blight resistant cultivars from crossings of Pyrus communis L. with Pyrus pyrifolia Nakai genotypes as a result of fire-blight sp...

Main Topics - The history of the European National/Regional Horticulture Societies - Personalities in the history of horticulture - Horticultural crops through history – dynamics in cultivation technologies and valorisation - Recovering of lost crops, species and old practices for a sustainable and resilient future https://ehc.usamv.ro/symposia/s1-...

The life-cycle cost analysis is a method used to assess long-term economic efficiency among equivalent competing processes or products. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature and level of costs for an organic orchard located in Southern Romania, using a complex approach covering the entire chain of production, through its life span....

Life Cycle Cost Analysis is a method used to assess long-term economic efficiency among equivalent competing processes or products. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the nature and level of costs for an organic orchard located in Southern Romania, using a complex approach covering the entire chain of production, through the life span. The...

The present study aims to generalize cultivar-specific tree phenology responses to winter and spring temperatures and assess the effectiveness of the Tabuenca test and various chill and heat accumulation models in predicting bloom dates for a wide range of climatic conditions and years. To this end, we estimated the dates of rest completion and blo...

The fruit sector in Romania and, particularly, the apple production sector, is considered to have been in decline in recent decades. Changes in the behavior and consumption habits of the population, together with climate change and the increase in fruit imports, have caused shortages in this sector. Apples are regarded as a national fruit in Romani...

Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) is one of the most cultivated fruit trees species worldwide, its fruits being consumed not only for their organoleptic attributes, but also for their nutraceutical properties. Therefore, the genetic variability of the species is extremely important to insure a large enough pool of cultivars to accommodate consumer dem...

Florin peach variety and Myrobalan 29C rootstock were included in the experiment. For the preparation of graft and rootstock, two methods were tested for this operation: I, submerging the explants resulting from the initiation step in solutions containing NAA and IBA in concentrations (0.00 control, 0.01, 0.50, 1.00 and 2.00) mg/l respectively and...

Scientific knowledge through studies with fundamental and applied research has revolutionized plant breeding over the past decades. Given the importance of the fruits for their nutritional, health, and industrial value, the apricot breeding programs evolved continuously. The integrated use of actual gene banks, multiple crossings, selection, and th...

The present study aims to present the investigation results on the importance of water in the landscape and to present a brief history of the use of the water element. The study took into consideration calm waters, falling waters, running waters, water for fountains. There have been included also a landscaping analysis - composition for the seven p...

The present work proposes as an area of analysis the apple sector and the characteristics of apple consumption in Romania. For this, a theoretical and applied documentation of different approaches in specialized works was made. A series of themes and methods used were identified. In our article we addressed the descriptive analysis of the data proc...

Three peach varieties (Florin, Filip and Mimi), two explants (shoots-tip and nodes) were tested. The explants were cultivated on 3 medium MS, B5 and QL adding of 30 g/l sucrose and 7 g/l agar without any hormone supplements during initiation stage. Cultures tubes were kept in the dark (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) days to get rid of the process of oxidation of p...

In vitro three peach cultivars (Florin, Filip and Mimi) included in this experiment, two explants (shoots-tip and nodes) were taken at 0.5-1cm length. The explants were cultivated on 3 medium MS, B5 and QL adding of 30 g/l sucrose and 7 g/l with tested different concentrations of plant hormones BAP and NAA in 12 variants. The aim of this study was...

The paper aims to establish a framework based on the method of LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and LCCA (Life Cycle Cost Analysis) in order to select the best parameters of apple technology by identifying the particularities of fruit production technologies and providing practical recommendations on how to approach the two methods. The methodology of t...

Pawpaw or Northern banana (Asimina triloba Dunal) is a recently introduced and nearly unknown fruit with high nutraceutical potential. Originated from the Eastern part of USA, is the only representative of the Annonaceae family cultivated in temperate areas. In Romania was introduced in 1926 by Ioan Suciu family in Pianu Nou, Alba County, who broug...

Pi water, discovered in 1964 by Prof. dr. Akihiro Yamashita and researched by Prof. dr.Fülöp László and Marioara Godeanu can be an important bio stimulatory in plant propagation by cuttings. This paper presents the preliminary results of a study regarding the influence of Pi water on edible rose cuttings rooting and growth. The experiment was made...

Increasing soil activity is one of the important parts of organic technology. This paper presents the results of a two-year study regarding the influence of ameliorative plants (Sinapis alba L., Phacelia tanacetifolia L. and Tagetes patula L.) combined with two organic mulches used (wood chips and wool) on the soil fungi diversity. Fungi taxa incre...

Birds are bioindicators of the environment quality and their presence in a horticultural ecosystem can give clues about the type of farming practices. The ecosystem services brought by birds are very important from an economic point of view for the agronomic fields (agriculture, horticulture, forestry, fish farming), ecotourism (leisure-bird watchi...

The paper presents the results of the morphological characteristics of Hosta leaves (leaves area, the perimeter, the length of the leaves, width of leaf, the surface of the dominant colour) and physiological studies (photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration and chlorophyll) got from ‘T. Rex’, ‘American halo’, ‘White feather’ and ‘Christmas island...

Technologies in organic agriculture must include specific actions for increasing soil activity. This paper presents the results of a two-year study regarding the influence of ameliorative plants (Sinapis alba L., Phacelia tanacetifolia L. and Tagetes patula L.) combined with two organic mulches used (wood chips and wool) on the soil bacteria divers...

The study presents the behaviour of 28 apricot cultivars planted in 2017 in the Experimental Field of the Faculty of Horticulture within the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest. The foreign cultivars grafted on Myrobalan 29C, Saint Julien A and GF 677, were planted at 4.5 x 1.5 m and 3.5 x 2.0 m for Parallel U and...

Pawpaw or Northern banana (Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal) is the only representative of the Annonaceae family that can be cultivated in temperate areas. The increasing demands from the consumers for this nearly unknown fruit with high nutraceutical potential require specific researches. The aim of this study is to present the fruits pomological charac...

The aim of this study is to present the behaviour of new apple scab resistant varieties cultivated in Bucharest area. Apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) is an important and dangerous pathogen, specific treatment being required and, in many cases, the products exceed the new pesticides limits. Every year, new resistant varieties are released by breede...

This study is part of the extended research focused on the identification of local fruit varieties, on their nutraceutical properties in order to be promoted on the market both as fresh fruits or processed products with added value. Among the SouthEast Transylvanian fruits, the old apple varieties Jonathan and Belle of Boskoop are cultivated in tra...

Chinese jujube is one of the most commonly used fruit in Chinese herbal medicine, being considered by the researchers and nutritionists a super fruit in terms of nutrition. In Romania, more than 20 genotypes were introduced from China, in the Experimental Field of the Faculty of Horticulture within the UASVM Bucharest. This study aims to present se...

In the present study, three climbing edible roses (‘Crown Princess Margareta’, ‘Falstaff’ and ‘Brother Cadfael’) were evaluated for total vegetative growth and flowers production, besides correlations with soil microbiological and agrochemical parameters. The applied organic technology included a soil preparatory stage with three ameliorative plant...

Decorative apple species are used in different fields: breeding, landscape architecture, feeding of the birds during winter, etc. This paper presents the physicohemical characteristics of some ornamental apple genotypes grown and developed in the Northern area of Bucharest and the degree of pollen germination, according with area’s climatic conditi...

The aim of this study is to present the results of the organic technology applied to increase and maintain the biological soil activity in an organic edible rose plantation established within USAMV Bucharest. Before and after planting, three ameliorative species: Sinapis alba L., Phacelia tanacetifolia L. and Tagetes patula L. were sown in seven va...

Germination and early growth of paw paw (Asimina triloba Dunal) seedlings were studied in an experiment performed in the greenhouse of USAMV Bucharest, using high dilutions The obtained results demonstrated that high dilutions of NaCl, Silicea and GHRF had significant effects on the germination and growth of Asimina triloba Dunal and can be used fo...

In the last 30 years, pears orchards area diminished dramatically in Romania due to several factors, the most important being the sensitivity to some pests (pear psylla - Cacopsylla pyricola Förster) and diseases (fire blight - Erwinia amylovora Burrill). In the same time, the market demand for pears is increasing and the prices are continuously hi...

In the present study, the behaviour of some old and new apricot varieties, grown in an integrated orchard in București Area, is presented. The apricot orchard was planted in 2008 and in 2017using Romanian and foreign varieties grafted on Mirobolan, Myrobalan 29C,Saint Julien A and GF 677. The planting distances varied from 4.5 x 3.0 m to 3.5 x 2.0...

In 2015, in the Experimental Field of Faculty of Horticulture within USAMV Bucharest an organic edible rose plantation with three varieties from David Austin collection: Crown Princess Margareta, Falstaff and Brother Cadfael was established. Before and after planting, three ameliorative species were sown in seven variants for increasing the soil bi...

The actual paper presents the first results on the nutraceutical substances found in the rose petals of different varieties, grown organically in different experimental variants. The petals were collected from each variant and analysed in fresh and dehydrated status. Rose petal jams produced with different ingredients (ginger, lemon, seabuckthorn)...

The actual paper presents the first results on the nutraceutical substances found in the rose petals of different varieties, grown organically in different experimental variants. The petals were collected from each variant and analysed in fresh and dehydrated status. Rose petal jams produced with different ingredients (ginger, lemon, seabuckthorn)...

Fig (Ficus carica L.) is an antique fruit species originated from Asia and spread all over the world. In Romania, many genotypes are found on mild climate zones, being cultivated in small gardens as ornamental and fruit plant. At the Bucharest Faculty of Horticulture recently, fig genotypes have been collected from different places, propagated and...

One of the present challenges of food production is to bring on the market innovative products with special nutraceutical properties that can fulfill the customers’ needs. The aim of this paper is to present some original data regarding the sensorial analysis and the customers perceptions on innovative jam obtained from organic rose petals. On 1,35...

The paper presents the evolution of some soil agrochemical parameters: pH, mineral N, PAL, KAL and humus, between March 2015 and November 2016, in an organic edible rose culture under the influence of three ameliorative species and two mulching systems. With the goal of planting three edible rose varieties, in the experimental field of USAMV Buchar...

The paper presents the evolution of the microbial activity analyzed through the evolution of the soil respiration, bacteria and fungi density between March 2015 and November 2016, in an organic edible rose culture under the influence of three ameliorative species and two mulching systems. Beginning with the spring of 2015, with the goal of planting...

Soil organic matter is fundamental for the long-term sustainability of agro-ecosystems. An experiment was conducted on the experimental plot aiming to determine if organic matter represented by mulches with wool wastes and wood chips could induce changes in soil microbial community composition and activity and effects on improvement of soil suppres...

The objective of the present study in experimental field was to assess the influence of organic matter applied as mulches with wool wastes and wood chips on soil microbial community composition and activity and effects on soil suppressiveness to plant pathogens in an organic culture of edible roses.

Papaya is widely cultivated and consumed, both for its agreeable flavour as well as its many pharmacological properties. Papaya (Carica papaya) is a palm-like, soft-stemmed, evergreen tree, that is native to the tropics of the Americas, but which is now cultivated not only in tropical and warm, semi-tropical zones around the world, but also in prot...

An important stage in the establishment of an organic perennial crop is the enhancement of soil fertility and biological activity. With the goal of planting an organic edible rose culture, a special soil preparation was applied. Three ameliorative plant species, Sinapis alba L., Tagetes patula L. and Phacelia tanacetifolia L., with role in soil dis...