Evaluation of Old Apple Cultivars Grown in Central Transylvania, Romania (2009)
Ioana MITRE, Viorel MITRE, Marin ARDELEAN, Radu SESTRAS, Adriana SESTRAS
In Romania, in this rather long period of transition, there are still many fruit tree orchards with old (classical) varieties which do not entirely meet the nowadays market and consumer’s criteria....
Ioana MITRE, Lehel LUKÁCS, Marin ARDELEAN, Viorel MITRE, Radu SESTRAS, Rodica POP, ...
Five apple cultivars (‘Florina’, ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘Idared’, ‘Jonathan’ and Starkrimson), were tested in 2004 and 2005 in five commercial orchards located in different counties of...
Radu SESTRAS, Doru PAMFIL, Marin ARDELEAN, Constantin BOTEZ, Adriana SESTRAS, Ioana MITRE, ...
Phenotypic selection in apple seedling populations (F1), derived from semidiallel hybridizations between genitors with different peculiarities (‘Florina’ and ‘Liberty’, resistant to apple...
Inheritance of Vigour Tree in F1 Apple Interspecific Hybrids (2009)
Radu SESTRAS, Doru PAMFIL, Adriana SESTRAS, Lorentz JÄNTSCHI, Sorana BOLBOACA, Catalina DAN
In ornamental apple breeding process, the vigour of the tree is an important characteristic, this trait being analyzed in selection of seminal descendants obtained by hybridization. The vigour of the...
Kamal CHOWDHURY, Mihail KANTOR, Radu SESTRAS
Malaria is one of the most deadly diseases caused by protozoan parasites of genus Plasmodium. It affects 300-500 million people annually, of which more than a million lives are lost; among them...
Adriana SESTRAS, Radu SESTRAS, Adrian BARBOS, Madalina MILITARU
Fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most damaging diseases of pear in the world. In Cluj-Napoca area, situated in central Transylvania, Romania, fire blight was...
Chen QIN, Wang WEI, Radu SESTRAS
Chi-B partial sequences of Sorghum halepense and its relatives were amplified with primer D16/D18 derived from Chi-B of the Sorghum genus. The results showed that the length varied from 567 bp to 607...
Variability and Heritability of Several Important Traits for Grape Production and Breeding (2008)
Radu SESTRAS, Sergiu Dan MOLDOVAN, Carmen Florentina POPESCU
Yield capacity, quality of grapes and resistance to downy mildew attack remain the important breeding objectives for grape. For these traits were analyzed more than 2200 F1 hybrids, belonging to...
Adriana SESTRAS, Radu SESTRAS, Adrian BARBOS, Madalina MILITARU
Fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most damaging diseases of pear in the world. In Cluj-Napoca area, situated in central Transylvania, Romania, fire blight was...
Adriana SESTRAS, Radu SESTRAS, Adrian BARBOS, Madalina MILITARU
Fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most damaging diseases of pear in the world. In Cluj-Napoca area, situated in central Transylvania, Romania, fire blight was...
Chen QIN, Wang WEI, Radu SESTRAS
Chi-B partial sequences of Sorghum halepense and its relatives were amplified with primer D16/D18 derived from Chi-B of the Sorghum genus. The results showed that the length varied from 567 bp to 607...
Variability and Heritability of Several Important Traits for Grape Production and Breeding (2008)
Radu SESTRAS, Sergiu Dan MOLDOVAN, Carmen Florentina POPESCU
Yield capacity, quality of grapes and resistance to downy mildew attack remain the important breeding objectives for grape. For these traits were analyzed more than 2200 F1 hybrids, belonging to...
Radu SESTRAS, Mihai BOTU, Viorel MITRE, Adriana SESTRAS, Smaranda ROSU-MARES
In the conditions of central Transylvania, Romania, five plum cultivars were studied, with different fruit ripening: earlier (Tuleu timpuriu), semi-earlier (Reine Claude d'Althan), medium (Valor),...
Mihai JIDAVU, Radu SESTRAS, Maria APAHIDEAN, Adriana SESTRAS, Eugenia HARSAN, Elena TAMAS, ...
Nine tomato varieties, hybrids F1 and selection (Perla Clujului, Natalia, Chico Grande, Indiana, Red River, Event, Jet, Montego, Cluj 8-2002) have been tested for their yield characteristics and...
Adriana SESTRAS, Mihai JIDAVU, Radu SESTRAS, Maria APAHIDEAN, Eugenia HARSAN, Elena TAMAS, ...
Nine tomato cultivars for fresh consumption and processing were evaluated for fruit quality at the Fruit Research Station Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The height of the fruits was between 46.7 mm (Red...
RESEARCH REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL CHEMICAL COMPONENT LOSS IN THE APPLE FRUIT DURING STORAGE (2006)
Eugenia HARSAN, Radu SESTRAS, Peter Alpar SOMSAI, Adrian BARBOS, Adriana SESTRAS
The study presents a comparison of the loss that the fruit suffer during the storage period in both traditional and refrigerating storage, at the Fruit Research Station Cluj-Napoca, Romania. There...
Bianca PATRASCU, Doru PAMFIL, Radu SESTRAS, Constantin BOTEZ, Ioana GABOREANU, Adrian BARBOS, ...
Apple scab caused by Venturia inaequalis, is an important disease, spread worldwide, having a major negative impact in apple production. In this study, there were analyzed four apple cultivars...
Mihai JIDAVU, Radu SESTRAS, Maria APAHIDEAN, Adriana SESTRAS, Eugenia HARSAN, Elena TAMAS, ...
Nine tomato varieties, hybrids F1 and selection (Perla Clujului, Natalia, Chico Grande, Indiana, Red River, Event, Jet, Montego, Cluj 8-2002) have been tested for their yield characteristics and...
Adriana SESTRAS, Mihai JIDAVU, Radu SESTRAS, Maria APAHIDEAN, Eugenia HARSAN, Elena TAMAS, ...
Nine tomato cultivars for fresh consumption and processing were evaluated for fruit quality at the Fruit Research Station Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The height of the fruits was between 46.7 mm (Red...
RESEARCH REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL CHEMICAL COMPONENT LOSS IN THE APPLE FRUIT DURING STORAGE (2006)
Eugenia HARSAN, Radu SESTRAS, Peter Alpar SOMSAI, Adrian BARBOS, Adriana SESTRAS
The study presents a comparison of the loss that the fruit suffer during the storage period in both traditional and refrigerating storage, at the Fruit Research Station Cluj-Napoca, Romania. There...
Bianca PATRASCU, Doru PAMFIL, Radu SESTRAS, Constantin BOTEZ, Ioana GABOREANU, Adrian BARBOS, ...
Apple scab caused by Venturia inaequalis, is an important disease, spread worldwide, having a major negative impact in apple production. In this study, there were analyzed four apple cultivars...
Elena TAMAS, Radu SESTRAS, Leon Jr. MUNTEAN
The phenotypic effect and the mutations frequency very much depend on the genetic background in which they produce and become manifest, as well as on the gene nature or the genetic material upon...
VARIABILITY OF TRAITS OF GROWTH - IN VIVO AND IN VITRO - ON GREENHOUSE CARNATION (2004)
Radu SESTRAS, Marin ARDELEAN, Constantin BOTEZ, Doru PAMFIL, Elena TAMAS, Chen QIN, ...
Several traits of growth on greenhouse carnation were analysed at seven varieties, growing both in vivo and in vitro. In vitro culture, proliferation and root formation were more intense in Pink Sol,...
GCA AND SCA EFFECTS FOR RAMIFICATION CAPACITY OF TREES IN F1 APPLE SEEDLINGS (2004)
Radu SESTRAS, Marin ARDELEAN, Constantin BOTEZ, Vasile GHIDRA, Victor BUCARCIUC, Ileana CHIS, ...
The number of branches per tree was analysed on F1 individuals originated in several crosses between apple cultivars with different architectural ideotypes: spur (Starkrimson, Golden spur), semispur...
Vasile GHIDRA, Ileana CHIS, Radu SESTRAS, Mariana DEJEU
Pear-breeding in the Fruit Research Station Cluj started in 1953 when the Fruit Research Station was founded, carrying the following objectives: productivity, quality and different ripening periods...
Some biological aspects in Vicia faba L. (1998)
Elena TAMAS, Mircea SAVATTI, Radu SESTRAS
Vicia faba L. is an annual plant useful both in man's and animal's nutrition. Horsebean seeds are rich in protein thus being an excellent source of lysine. One major drawback with these is the...
Types of tree growth and fruit setting in F1 apple hybrids (1998)
Radu SESTRAS, Marin ARDELEAN, Vasile GHIDRA, Mirela CORDEA, Lucia COSTIN, Agnes BORS
1656 F1 hybrid apple seedlings, belonging to 127 combinations, have been screened according to their growing and fruit setting types, as it was phenotypically expressed. LESPINASSE (1977; 1992)...
Architectural ideotype of pear seedling in five hybrid combinations (1998)
Vasile GHIDRA, Marin ARDELEAN, Radu SESTRAS, Elena TAMAS, Mirela CORDEA, Mariana DEJEU, ...
The architectural ideotype - type of growing - was studied in a topcross experiment with five hybrid combinations in which Cluj 72-2-100 selection, typical spur, was used as a maternal tester. The...
Maturity of F1 grape hybrids originated in Pink Traminer (1998)
Radu SESTRAS, Marin ARDELEAN, Sergiu Dan MOLDOVAN, Elena TAMAS, Eugenia MOLDOVAN, Mirela CORDEA, ...
In eight hybrid combinations in which one of the parents (either maternal of paternal) was cv. Pink Traminer (Gewurztraminer), 2.284 F1 individuals have been analyzed concerning the maturity of...
Types of tree growth and fruit setting in F1 apple hybrids (1998)
Radu SESTRAS, Marin ARDELEAN, Vasile GHIDRA, Mirela CORDEA, Lucia COSTIN, Agnes BORS
1656 F1 hybrid apple seedlings, belonging to 127 combinations, have been screened according to their growing and fruit setting types, as it was phenotypically expressed. LESPINASSE (1977; 1992)...