ABSTRACT Bamboo is plant of the family Poaceae sub-family Bambusoideae, in Indonesian species number of bamboo found reaches 161 species or approximately 11.5% of the totally species of bamboo in the world. Kampar Regency is located in Riau Province with geographical conditions located in the middle of Sumatra Island, like this bumpy areas, lowlands, highlands or hills, and swamps, which …
ABSTRACT Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu (GSK-BB) Biosphere Reserve is one of the areas in Riau Province which has the largest area of peatland. Most of the peatlands in Riau have been converted into plantations and industrial plantations (HTI). The conversion of land functions has an impact on changes in vegetation, decreases in the surface of the peat, and affects the quality of the peat soil. Th…
ABSTRACT Peatlands in the Biosphere Reserve Giam Siak Kecil- Bukit Batu (GSK-BB), Riau are mostly converted into Timber Plantation (TP) Acacia, oil palm plantation, rubber plantation and settlements. Peatland conversion will affect the population and soil microbial activity. Population and soil microbial activity are indicators that are sensitive to soil quality. This research aimed to monitor…
ABSTRACT Biosphere Reserve GSK-BB is an area of peat ecosystem that has been largely converted, causing a decrease in the quality of the peat. Generally, parameters of peat quality use biological, physical and chemical factors. This parameter has not high sensitivity. Therefore, Bacterial Key Species (BKS) was developed from 16S rRNA gene sequences as sensitive parameters in monitoring peat qu…
ABSTRACT Peatlands are the result of the decomposition of organic matter under anaerobic conditions that accumulate over hundreds of years naturally. A massive conversion of land function can lead degradation of the peatland quality. The purpose of this study was to determine candidate bacterial key species (BKS) and specific primer design to detect the 16S rRNA gene from BKS that was detected…
ABSTRACT Plastic disposal is one of the greatest problem facing the environment because plastic is difficult to degrade in nature. Biodegradation is an important approach to waste reduction that relies on biological processes to break down plastics pollutants. This study screened fifteen Riau local fungi isolates for their ability to degrade the Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic. Fun…
ABSTRACT Tacca chantrieri is a species of the Tacca genus from the Dioscoreaceae family which is an annual herbaceous tropical plant. T. chantrieri has a unique inflorescence morphology like a bat. T.chantrieri rhizome contains secondary metabolites such as diarylheptanoids, pseudofurostan, withanolide, taccalonolide, saponins, and has played a role as traditional medicine in Southeast China an…
ABSTRACT Surface water quality is regulated by surrounding anthropogenic activity and natural processes, including rainfall, climate change, erosion, weathering. Surface water quality can be determined using a combination of physical-chemical and biological parameters. This study aims to determine the quality of Selais artificial lake water, using physical and biological methods with saprobic …
ABSTRACT Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) are annual plants that live in tropical climates such as in the Middle East and North Africa. Expansion of traditional date palm cultivation is still available by the ability of plants to produce new seeds in large numbers, uniformly, and in a short time. The problem with dates today is the generative propagation through conventional seeds which take…
ABSTRACT The tamarillo (Solanum betaceum Cav.) is a plant from the Solanaceae family that has medicinal properties that can increase immunity. Until now, the tamarillo cultivation is still practiced traditionally so that the fruit production is not as expected. Research on the quality of tamarillo propagation in an effort to increase productivity is still lacking. One that can be applied for m…
ABSTRACT Conventional plastics are difficult to degrade and can pollute the environment. Therefore, another alternative to replace conventional plastic is needed by using bioplastics which are more biodegradable. The purpose of this study was to obtain potential bacterial isolates to produce Polyhydroxy Alkanoate (PHA) as a bioplastic feedstock from peat soil and landfills in Riau. PHA produci…
ABSTRACT Plant stress studies are based on gene expressions. This research aims to analyze the DNA sequence of 18S rRNA in cocor bebek (K. x laetivirens). The research methods being out are total DNA isolation, electrophoresis, PCR, sequencing and data analysis utilizing BioEdit, BLASTn and Mega 6 programs. Partial DNA sequence of 18S rRNA in K. x laetivirens has been obtaine with 419 bp lengt…
ABSTRACT Petroleum production activities can cause environmental pollution which has a significant impact on humans and the ecosystem. One way of handling polluted environmental conditions is biodegradation using the Bacillus sp., Which can utilize hydrocarbon compounds in petroleum as a source of carbon to carry out its metabolic activities. Therefore, a study aimed to determine the ability o…
ABSTRACT Trichophyton mentagrophytes ATCC R4608300 and Microsporum canis are pathogenic fungi that can cause infection in humans. Tea tree essential oil has an antifungal effect against T. mentagrophytes ATCC R4608300 and M. canis. This study aims to determine the ability of tea tree essential oil to inhibit dermatophyte fungi and to determine the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of tea …
ABSTRAK Kepungan sialang merupakan sistem vegetasi di kawasan Tesso Nilo, Provinsi Riau, yang dikelola secara tradisional dengan tujuan untuk menjaga produksi madu hutan agar dapat dimanfaatkan manusia. Sistem ini berupa satu atau beberapa pohon sialang yang biasanya digunakan oleh koloni-koloni lebah besar (Apis dorsata) untuk bersarang secara berdekatan. Penelitian ini mengkaji jenis dan pol…
ABSTRACT Andaliman (Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC.) Belongs to the Rutaceae family commonly used for coocking spices and medical plant and has the potential to be developed in the pharmaceutical and food industries. Publication on aspects of cultivation is still limited, and generative propagation using seeds is still a problem because the seeds have low seed germination. This happen because th…
ABSTRACT The gene encoding 26S rRNA (26S ribosomal Ribonucleic acid) is part of a large sub-unit of structural ribosomal RNA from eukaryotic ribosomes and is included in the housekeeping gene group that can be used as an internal control in gene expression tests in plants. The aim of this study was to analyze the DNA sequences of 26S rRNA encoding in cocor bebek (Kalanchoe x laetivirens) f…
ABSTRACT Molecular identification can be done through a technique called DNA barcoding techniques. The noncoding DNA barcodes in plants are ITS and trnL-trnF intergenic spacer. The ITS region is an area in the nuclear genome that is commonly used in phylogenetic analysis at the species level, which can show the highest level of interspecies differences while the trnL-trnF intergenic spacer…
ABSTRACT DNA barcode is a short sequence that can be used in DNA barcoding. One of the DNA barcodes in plants is the ndhC_trnV intergenic spacer sequence. The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the DNA barcode sequences in the ndhC_trnV intergenic spacer in two species of cocor bebek A and B in Pekanbaru, Riau. The research steps consisted of morphological observations, samp…
ABSTRACT Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a group of housekeeping genes and its expression in various abiotic stresses is constitutive and stable. Molecularly, gene expression analysis techniques require internal controls for basic cell regulation. This study aims to analyze the DNA sequences encoding GAPDH in cocor bebek (Kalanchoe x laetivirens). The research procedur…