R. Tamba-Berehoiu, C. Popa, L. Vişan, V. Simion, R. Dobrinoiu, S. Dănăilă-Guidea
{"title":"Farinograph Vs. Alveograph in Predictive Modelling of Wheat Flours Quality","authors":"R. Tamba-Berehoiu, C. Popa, L. Vişan, V. Simion, R. Dobrinoiu, S. Dănăilă-Guidea","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0092","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of the research was to determine to what extent the farinograph and alveograph parameters correlate with each other, and with the physical-chemical parameters, frequently used in the evaluation of wheat flours quality. Thus, 81 samples of wheat flours were analyzed. We found a better correlation of alveographic parameters, such as Extensibility and Mechanical Work (r2 varied between 0.48-0.51), with Protein content and Gluten content of flours, compared to farinographic parameters: Development time and Stability (r2 varied between 0.25-0.35). A poor correlation between farinographicand alveographic parameters was observed, the maximum value of the determination coefficient being r2=0.40, between Stability and Mechanical Work. The factorial analysis led to the highlight of four principal components. The first principal component was strongly correlated with the Protein content (including Gluten) of flours, with most farinographic (except for Water absorptin) and alveographic parameters (Mechanical work, W and Extensibility index, G). This component appears to express the tolerance of flours to the mechanical stress, exerted in the dough phase and their ability to preserve the own viscosity under mechanical stress conditions. The second principal component is related to the dough resistance to deformation, as expressed by the alveographic parameters Resistance and the P/L ratio. Principal components three and four were strongly correlated with flours ash (extraction degree) and amilolytic activity.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"101 1","pages":"586 - 593"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84643227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on the Potential of Winetourism in Alba County","authors":"A. I. Popa, M. Coroș","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0049","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present paper addresses an analysis of the economic, touristic and gastronomic evolution of the county starting from the period before the 1990s until 2016. Initially, the economic growth of Alba County started with its industry, especially the chemical, wood processing, machine building, and food industry, but also with mining. Afterwards, there was a period of economic decline, thereafter the industry in this area started to relaunch, however, below the 1990s level. The results of the study show the existence of many tourist attractions with great potential for growth and it also present the economic growth potential of Sebes, Cugir, Blaj, Alba Iulia, Rosia Montana, Zlatna, Ocna Mures, Arieseni and Aiud. The conclusions of the study highlight the need identified at county level, namely the necessity to turn into account the wine route by expanding accommodation capacities, taking advantage of the touristic objectives, developing the infrastructure and tailoring the offers","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"328 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88706908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of Vegetation Fraction Cover in Agricultural Areas Affected by Prellonged Draughts in the South Regions of Romania","authors":"C. Bordun, A. Nertan, S. Cîmpeanu","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The draught phenomena affecting the traditional agricultural areas in south of Romania has been increasing in intensity over the time, leading to the desertification of several thousands of hectares in the south part of the country. In this study we have computed the vegetation fraction cover for the South-West and South - East regions of Romania, based on the minimum and maximum NDVI extracted from MODIS satellite images. The time frame to refer to is 2000 - 2017, perennially, with special significance given the numerous and prolonged draught intervals these areas have been facing and the social economic evolution, from small farms to large agricultural holdings. The resulted vegetation fraction cover (fc) is correlated to the SPI values in order to determine a pattern to be used in anticipating deviations from the seasonal vegetation productivity. As a conclusion, the study presents a fair balance, indicating the most sensitive areas in soil vegetation cover, due to the SPI change.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"13 1","pages":"346 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75228513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fatty Acids Effect on Lipase and Biosurfactant Induction in Rhodotorula Glutinis CMGB-RG5","authors":"Ortansa Csutak, V. Corbu, I. Stoica, T. Vassu","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0081","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Fatty acids represent important substrates for obtaining microbial lipases and biosurfactants. The yeast strain CMGBRG5 was identified as Rhodotorula glutinis using the BIOLOG MicroLog System. The opacity screening tests showed that R. glutinis CMGB-RG5 was able to produce lipases in presence of 1% Tween 80 after three days of incubation. Lipase induction was estimated as cell growth in presence of Tween 80, Tween 20, olive oil and tributyrin. After 48 hours, best results were obtained in presence of butyric acid, respectively, oleic acid: 2.2 × 107 cells/ml on tributyrin and 1.0 × 107 cells/ml on olive oil. Biosurfactant production was evaluated as emulsification index (E24%). After one week, high E24 values were obtained on fried sunflower oil (53%) and olive oil (35%). Crude and concentrated biosurfactants were tested against nine Candida strains. Best antimicrobial activity was observed for [20X] biosurfactants against C. tropicalis, C. guilliermondii and C. krusei. In conclusion, R. glutinis CGB-RG5 shows high potential for using fatty acids from various sources as unique carbon substrates for synthesis of biocompounds with high economic and biotechnological value.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"65 1","pages":"515 - 522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84480002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Potential Method of Chemical Remediation of Arable Lands Polluted with Heavy Metals","authors":"Luciana Vrancuta","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0062","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Soils from agricultural areas are under anthropic pressures, one of the causes being atmospheric deposition of heavy metals. In order to prevent that diffuse pollution affects the soil for long term it is important to reduce the releases of pollutant from air and water. In this paper it was analysed a potential method of chemical remediation applied to the case of an accidental situation of arable soil pollution with heavy metals. The technology of remediation proposed is based on a chemical fixation by adding a reagent into the contaminated soil where it reacts with heavy metals and form insoluble complexes. The organic reagent is one of the best-known and most frequently used in extraction and trace analysis. So, the chemical remediation proposed could decrease the migration of heavy metals in soil and subsequently, in water, plant and other environmental media.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"19 1","pages":"409 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73955220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Toma, M. Georgescu, S. Petra, C. Mãnescu, E. Ailincai, D. C. Potor
{"title":"Research on the Technological and Morpho-Anatomic Particularities on Forcing Bulbs of Iris Reticulata","authors":"F. Toma, M. Georgescu, S. Petra, C. Mãnescu, E. Ailincai, D. C. Potor","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Iris reticulata is one of the most appreciated flower species, being found in both field crops and greenhouse cultures. Our research has as a major objective the study of the influence of particularities of thermic regime from cold period upon the quality of the bulbs flowering. For planting we used bulbs distributed in three equal batches, for each batch, differentiating the period of cold necessary for the rooting of the bulbs. The cold period was provided in three variants: in the refrigerator (5°C), in a shade which climate similar to the outside (5°C), in the cellar (10°C). The introduction of bulbs planted in the greenhouse for forcing was performed for each of the three batches after 4, 6 and 8 weeks of cold storage. The microscopic preparations show that on begin of cold period all the floral elements are formed inside in the bulb. The best quality of the bulbs flowering was obtained on the variants which cold period occurred on the shade, at °5 C temperature.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"68 1","pages":"322 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79678933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beatris Tenie, G. Fîntîneru, D. Smedescu, A. Fîntîneru
{"title":"The Romanian Agrotourism Over the Last Two Decades: Good Old Places or New Attractions?","authors":"Beatris Tenie, G. Fîntîneru, D. Smedescu, A. Fîntîneru","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Tourism represents an important economic activity for most of the countries all around the world. For Romania also, tourism plays an extremely important role in the economic development, contributing with 5.2% to GDP and with more than 500,000 for total employment, according to the 2017 WTTC report. Starting with the year 2000, the Romanian rural tourism and agrotourism, have seen a significant development in terms of infrastructure and services quality, political attention, legislative climate and qualified staff. In order to highlight the dynamics of Romanian agrotourism and to deliver insights about the greatest challenges of this activity in rural areas, the paper investigated the main offer and demand regional indicators of agro-tourist activity in Romania during the period 2000-2016, using the empirical data provided by the National Institute of Statistics.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"183 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90812150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Schuszler, D. Popović, C. Zaha, B. Sicoe, D. Bumb, C. Igna
{"title":"Observations on Xylazine-Ketamine-Isoflurane Anesthesia in Constrictor Snakes","authors":"L. Schuszler, D. Popović, C. Zaha, B. Sicoe, D. Bumb, C. Igna","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0074","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Anesthetic management of the reptilian patient, including the design of the anesthetic protocol, is a challenge due to multiple anatomical and physiological features. Usually, anesthetic and analgesia protocols, including monitoring techniques, some of which are of low value, established in domestic animals are also applied to these patients. In the study were included five constrictor snakes in which, under xylazine-ketamine-isoflurane anesthesia, various surgical interventions lasting up to 50 minutes were performed. The severity of CNS inhibition as well as the length of different anesthetic times was monitored. The association used ensured the achievement of the surgical anesthesia depth and immobility with optimal conditions for performing surgical interventions in the oral cavity, cutaneous or amputation of hemipenis. The length of induction, surgical anesthesia and recovery fall within the limits recorded in the specialty literature for reptile.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"18 1","pages":"474 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75440310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena Ungureanu, G. Mustățea, Loredana Stanca, Iren Şerban
{"title":"Quantifying Bisphenol from Food Packaging and Assessment of its Cytotoxic Potential","authors":"Elena Ungureanu, G. Mustățea, Loredana Stanca, Iren Şerban","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0078","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bisphenol A (BPA) is a compound that is released from PET packaging during storage bottled water and can have a harmful effect on human health. This study aimed to investigate the cytotoxic potential of BPA at the Caco-2 cell line. Bottled water samples coming from two companies were analyzed starting from 1 month to 12 months of storage Quantification of BPA in water stored in PET containers was carried out by a spectrometric method. Calibration was performed for BPA concentrations ranging between 0.01 and 0.09 mg/L. Caco-2 cell cultures were treated for 24 hours with different BPA concentrations (from 0.1 mM to 1 mM). Viability and cell cytotoxicity analysis was performed by MTT assay. BPA concentration in one water sample ranged from 0.09 to 0.92 mg/L while for second water sample BPA concentration ranged from 0.03 to 0.73 mg/L. After 10 months from packing, BPA concentration began to exceed the 0.6 mg/L limit stated by Regulation (EU) no. 10/2011. Cell viability decreased in a dose dependent manner and reached the minimum of 3.8% for the 1 mM BPA concentration.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"173 1","pages":"495 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77289049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavior of Blackberry Varieties in the Central Area of the Republic of Moldova","authors":"A. Peșteanu, I. Pompus","doi":"10.2478/alife-2018-0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/alife-2018-0044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim was to evaluate the influence of the Arapaho, Thornfree and Triple Crown varieties in condition of the Republic of Moldova on main phenophases of the development of the blackberries plants, quantity of fruits, their average weight, productivity of the blackberry plantation and their economic productivity according to the biological particularities of the variety. The study subject of the experience was the Arapaho, Thornfree and Triple Crown blackberry varieties. The distance of plantation is 3.0 × 1.5 m. The experimental plot it was placed in the „Pomrubus” Ltd. founded in 2014 year. The research was conducted during years 2016-2017. During the research, it was studied the phenophases of the development of the blackberries plants, quantity of fruits and their average weight, productivity of the plantation and economic efficiency of the production of blackberries. During the analyzed period, it was established that the phenophases of the development of the blackberries plants, quantity of fruits, their average weight, productivity of the plantation and economic efficiency of the production was in direct correlation with the biological particulates of the studied varieties of the blackberry.","PeriodicalId":6413,"journal":{"name":"“Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture” Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"298 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87844818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}