Gabriel Corneanu

University of Craiova · Department of Agricultural and Forestry Technology

Before the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens, some pre-human genotypes that lived on the Earth, left material evidence concerning different events of their social, behavioural or artistic manifestations. One of the earliest proofs is the use of objects from the environment as primitive tools to extract bone marrow, action probably achieved by a po...

Garlic (Allium sativum L.), an economically important vegetable, used as food and for medicinal purposes, is a widely cultivated crop. The breeding programs are limited to clonal selection, due to its sexual sterility. For the enhancement of genetic variability one way is the collection of landraces from different environmental conditions. 24 landr...

Middle Jiu Valley is one of the largest surface coal exploitation area in Romania. The coal exploitation area is a dense populated one, along the valleys are villages and the inhabitants produce for their own consumption fruits and vegetables, in their personal gardens, or cereals in the fields, nearby the villages. There was considered to be of gr...

Phragmites australis (Cav.) Steudel (reed), is a phytoremediatory species, meet in the swampy areas, being a hypperaccumulator for chromium (Calheiros et al., 2008; Ait Ali et al., 2004, a/o). In nature there are cytotypes with a different somatic chromosome number (6x - 16x), with a good adaptation at various environmental conditions. Weis and Wei...

ABSTRACT The ultrastructural features of the leaf in mature plants of Helianthus annuus (during flowering), cultivated in three different areas: in normal culture (Floresti village, Cluj district) and in cultures on sites polluted with heavy metals and radionuclides: (a) near the power station Turceni and (b) on sterile waste dump in the Pedologica...

This paper is structured on two mainly sections. In the first section there are presented actual knowledge about the origin of the modern humans, based on the mtDNA and genomic DNA analysis at the fossil and actual human species. In the second section, based on the classical centres of the domesticated of the plants, elaborated by Nikolai I. Vavilo...

The collections carried out in July 2010 regarding the Thysanoptera praticolous fauna on the tailing dumps of Rovinari show a low specific diversity, of only 11 species. The human impact exerted over the years upon the studied sites resulted in the reduction of the Thysanoptera taxonomic spectrum and especially in the diminution of the population o...

The aim of this study was to establish the possible toxicological effects of chemicals released into mineral water bottled in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, preserved at room temperature and at 48°C, by Allium test. There were analyzed the growth tests, as well as chromosomal and genomic mutations. In all experimental variants the mitoti...

Key words: mushroom, heavy metals and radionuclide resistance. REZUMAT. Pe haldele de steril si cenusa din jurul CET Rovinari si Turceni, au fost intalnite mai frecvent cinci specii de ciuperci, trei pe suprafata solului (Agaricus campestris, Coprinus comatus, Macrolepiota procera) si doua saprofite pe nuc (Auricularia mesenterica si Polyporus alve...

REZUMAT Specia Robinia pseudoacacia este o specie fixatoare de azot, care amelioreaza calitatea si proprietatile solului. Ea poate fi utilizata ca specie pionier la reimpadurirea terenurilor degradate (halde de steril si cenusa cu un continut ridicat in metale grele si radionuclizi), unde alte specii nu reusesc. Analiza caracteristicilor ultrastruc...

The single or combined effect of a total acid alkaloid extract obtained from Nigella sativa seeds, administered in distilled water or in deuterium-depleted water (DDW), against a stress factor (the whole body X-irradiation), on the liver ultrastructure of Mus musculus, was analysed. The single action of X-rays induced alteration of the hepatocyte s...

Explants of Chrysanthemum hortorum [Dendranthema], Hyacinthus orientalis and Mammillaria sp. were treated with bioenergy (electromagnetic radiation) emitted by 2 human subjects. The explant response in culture was affected by such factors as genotype, type of explant and treatment duration. The treatment increased the development rate of the materi...

Nigella L. species the utilization and biology of are presented. The anatomy, chromosome features, seed chemical composition, flower colour genetics and some somatic mutants of Nigella species from Romania are discussed.

Corneanu G.C. and Szekely I.B. The action of combined X-radiations and magnetic fields on dry seeds of Pisum sativum L. Radiation Botany 12, 315-322, 1972.-The single and combined action of X-rays and of homogeneous magnetic fields on dry seeds of Pisum sativum L. var. melileucum has been investigated. Pea dry seeds (3·3 per cent moisture content)...