Empowering Sustainable Food Crop Breeding through Smart Selection

02/09/2026

We were pleased to meet with the Doktar Technologies team on 26 August 2026 as part of the AI-CROPBREED project.

We were pleased to meet with the Doktar Technologies team on 26 August 2026 as part of the AI-CROPBREED project. https://lnkd.in/d5KxVwBJ

22/06/2026

🌿 Field Day at USAMV Bucharest - and the freezers are filling up.
The USAMV Bucharest AI-CROPBREED team collected over 400 leaf samples from carrot (Daucus carota L.) plants growing in our experimental field. One leaf per plant, carefully labeled, now stored at −80°C and waiting for their moment.
What are we waiting for? Flowering. As each plant bolts, we'll extract RNA and capture the gene expression signature that separates early bolters from late ones. That molecular fingerprint is exactly what AI-CROPBREED is after: the biological language behind a trait that costs growers dearly when it shows up too soon.
USAMV Bucharest is proud to be the Romanian partner in this journey.
Science grows in fields, too.

11/05/2026

See you on our next events! Thank you!👏🏼

09/05/2026

🌿 AI-CROPBREED Open Days | May 9, 2026 - science opened its doors
Today, as part of the Zilele Horticulturii Bucureștene / Bucharest Horticulture Days, the experimental fields and greenhouses of the Faculty of Horticulture at USAMV București hosted the first Open Days event of the AI-CROPBREED project.
Guests came face to face with one of the real questions of contemporary agriculture: can artificial intelligence anticipate premature flowering (bolting) in carrot (Daucus carota L.) - before the damage is done?
The project, funded through the European ICT-AGRI-FOOD programme and coordinated in Romania by USAMV București, brings together research teams from Turkey, Poland and Romania. The stakes are not trivial: in years marked by unpredictable springs, bolting can destroy up to 40% of the harvest, leaving behind woody, commercially worthless roots.
The answer we are building: a convolutional neural network trained on seedling imagery, genetic data and environmental parameters - a system that reads the plant from its earliest stages and estimates the risk of early flowering.
🔗 www.aicropbreed.com

Project funded through ERANET-ICT-AGRI-FOOD-AI-CROPBREED, PNCDI IV, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization.

07/05/2026

Join us for Crop Breeding Through Smart Selection OPEN DAYS! Horticulturii Bucureștene.
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Starting Saturday at 12.00, in Campus Agronomie Herastrau.

Open Days Când? Sâmbătă, 9 mai 2026, ora 12:00 - 13:00 Unde? Câmp experimental, Facultatea de Horticultură Cine poate participa? Fermieri, stakeholderi, studenți, copii, publicul larg. Dacă vrei să participi la această zi deschisă, te rugăm să completezi formularul de înscriere. În ca...

05/05/2026

Deschidem portile campurilor experimentale din cultura de morcovi la Zilele HORTIculturii bucurestene.
AI- CROPBREED in open days.
9 mai 2026, incepand cu ora 12.00
Va asteptam in campurile experimentale ale Facultatii de Horticultura!
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18/04/2026

🌱 OPEN DAYS AI-CROPBREED
Zilele Horticulturii Bucureștene 2026
📅 Sâmbătă, 9 mai 2026 · 12:00–13:00
📍 Câmp experimental, Facultatea de Horticultură, USAMV București
Câmpurile experimentale ale proiectului AI-CROPBREED se deschid publicului.

Vino să vezi cm arată selecția asistată de inteligență artificială la morcov (Daucus carota L.) – de la sămânță la cultura în câmp, pentru dezvoltarea unui model predictiv.
Observații în teren, în direct:
→ Populații F₂ monitorizate pentru bolting
→ Observații fenologice în timp real
→ Imagistică standardizată a răsadurilor
→ Instruire pentru utilizarea aplicației
👥 Fermieri · studenți · copii · public larg

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