Convener
Marian – Iancu BOGOESCU – Romanian Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of (RAAFS)
Viorica Luchian LAGUNOVSCHI – University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (UASVM Bucharest)
Prof. dr. Nazim Gruda – University of Bonn – Germany
Organising Committee
Valeriu TABARA, Romanian Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of Bucharest (RAAFS)
Gheorghe GLAMAN, AAFS & Romanian Society of Horticulture (RSH)
Adrian ASANICA, UASVM Bucharest
Liliana BADULESCU, UASVM Bucharest
Victor LACATUS, RAAFS
Gicuța ZBARCIOG, Vegetable and Floriculture Research and Development Institute Vidra (VFRDS)
Costel VANATORU, Vegetable Research and Development Station Buzau (VRDS)
Marian BREZEANU, VRDS Bacău
Sorin CHIRU, RAAFS
Luiza MIKE, RAAFS
Ioana CUCU, RAAFS
Vili DRAGOMIR, Romanian Institute of Agricultural Economy and Rural Development Bucharest (RIAERD)
Nicole PETCULESCU, AAFS
Scientific Committee (in alphabetic order)
| Name, Surname | Institution | Country |
| Prof. Rukie AGIC` | Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius of Skopje | Macedonia |
| Prof. Sali ALIU | Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary, University of Prishtina | Kosovo |
| Prof. Sasan ALINIAEIFARD | University of Tehran | Iran |
| Prof. Uygun AKSOY | Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University | Turkey |
| Prof. Balliu ASTRIT | Department of Horticulture, University of Tirana | Albania |
| Prof. Božidar BENKO | Faculty of Agriculture,University of Zagreb | Croatia |
| Prof. Ferdinando BRANCA | University of Catania | Italy |
| Dr. Creola BREZEANU | University of Life Science – Iasi | Romania |
| Prof. Gianluca CARUSO | University of Naples Federico II | Italy |
| Prof. Claudiu Sorin CHIRU | University of Transilvanya – Brasov | Romania |
| Prof. Giuseppe COLLA | University of Tuscia, Dafne | Italy |
| Prof. Hayriye Yildiz DAŞGA | Çukurova University | Turkey |
| Prof. Jinlong DONG | Chinese Academy of Science | China |
| Prof. dr. Juan A. FERNANDEZ | Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena | Spain |
| Prof. Carmina GISBERT | Universitat Politècnica de València | Spain |
| Prof. Dr. Nazim GRUDA | University of Bonn | Germany |
| Prof. Zarko ILLIN | Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad | Serbia |
| Prof. dr. Zoran S ILIC | Unioversity of Pristina | Serbia |
| Prof. Zoran JOVOVIC` |
Biotechnical Faculty Podgorica, University of Montenegro |
Montenegro |
| Prof. Constantinos KITTAS | University of Thessaly, School of Agricultural Sciences | Greece |
| Dr. Pradeep KUMAR | ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur | India |
| Prof. Daniel I. Leskovar | Department of Horticultural Sciences Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center |
United States of America |
| Dr. Xun LI | Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China |
| Prof. Rui Manuel de ALMEIDA MACHADO | Evora University, Portugal | Portugal |
| Prof. Neculai MUNTEANU | University of life Science – Iasi | Romania |
| Assoc. Prof. Francesco ORSINI | Agricultural Plant Science, University of Bologna | Italy |
| Prof. Stefania de PASCALE | Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II | Italy |
| Dr. Francisco Perez ALFOCEA | Spanish National Research Council (CEBAS-CSIC) | Spain |
| Prof. Nicole PETCULESCU | Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences | Romania |
| Prof. Gordana POPSIMONOVA | Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius of Skopje | North Macedonia |
| Prof. Gierde SAMOULIENE | Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry | Lithuania |
| Prof. Dimitrios SAVVAS | Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens | Greece |
| Prof. Ion SCURTU | Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences | Romania |
| Prof. Topcu SEVILAY | Cukurova University | Turkey |
| Dr. Hira SINGH | Department of Vegetable Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab | India |
| Prof. Ozkan SIVRITEPE | Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences of Konya, Food and Agriculture University | Turkey |
| Prof. Piotr SIWEK | Department of Horticulture, Agriculture University Kraków | Poland |
| Prof. Florin STANICA | University of Agronomic Science and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest | Romania |
| Prof. Vasile STOLERU | University of Life Sciences “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” Iasi | Romania |
| Dr. Marie TORRES | CTIFL (French Technical Institute for Fruits and Vegetable) | France |
| Assoc. Prof. dr. Ivanka TRINGOVSKA | Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute | Bulgaria |
| Prof. Yüksel TUZEL | Ege University Agriculture Faculty, Department of Horticulture | Turkey |
| Prof. Nicolay VELKOV | “Maritsa” Vegetable Crops Research Institute, Department of Plant breeding | Bulgaria |
| Prof. Halit YETISIR | Erciyes University Faculty of Agriculture – Department of Horticulture | Turkey |
| Prof. Rouphael YOUSSEF | Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici | Italy |
| Prof. Dukadjin ZEKA | University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary | Kosovo |