Judul: Potensi Populasi Gandum (Triticum aestivum) Putatif Mutan Generasi M4 untuk Toleransi terhadap Dataran Menengah Iklim Tropis Basah di Indonesia
Abstrak: Wheat is an important food world because of its many benefits. According to their home environment, wheat can be grown well in areas with low temperature and in Indonesia is only found on the plateau with limited area. Therefore wheat varieties that are tolerant to the mid- to low-latitude with higher temperatures needed to be created. Gamma-ray irradiation has been treated on four wheat introduced varieties, namely Basribey, Kasifbey, Oasis and Rabe. The fourth generation of putative mutant populations shows higher mean and variance compare with the wildtype on plant height, tiller number, panicle length and spikelet number, but not on seed weight. The Basribey putative mutant population has the highest mean for almost all of the characters than the other three populations. Characters with moderate to high broad sense heritability were number of tillers, flowering, harvesting, number of spike, percentage of empty florets, main panicle seed weight, tillers panicle seed weight and seed weight per plant.
Keyword: gamma ray irradiation, mean, variance, broad sense heritability

Judul: Karakter Reproduktif Gandum (Triticum aestivum L.) Toleran Suhu Tinggi di Dataran Tinggi dan Sedang
Abstrak: Wheat (T. aestivumL.) is a cereal crop and member of the family Gramineae originated from subtropic region. It is suggested that putrescine aplication may improve wheat growth in tropical environment indicating that wheat crop might be resistant to high temperature stress and also able to increase its production. This study aimed to observe the effect of putrescine treatment to the reproductive characters of three cultivated varieties of high temperature-tolerant wheat that were plantedin Cisarua 600 m asl and Cipanas 1100 m asl, West Java. This experiment was designed as a factorial experiment with 2 factors. The first factor was putrescine with three consentrations 0, 1.25, and 2.5 mM. The second factor was wheat varieties, SBR, ASTREB and Nias. Wheat varieties influenced plant height and some reproductive characters including flowering and harvesting age, panicle length, number of spikelet, number of floret, number of empty floret, and seed weight per panicle. Moreover, altitude affected the plant height and number of tillers, but it did not affect the reproductive characters. Reproductive characters did not respond to putrescien application. The three cultivated varieties are high temperature-tolerant, therefore the varieties can be grown in two planting location.
Keyword: Triticum aestivum L., tolerant temperature, wheat reproductive, Putrescine

Judul: Studi Kasus Patologi Hernia Diafragmatika pada Kucing
Abstrak: A cat was found with several critical conditions such as skin ulceration, exophthalmus, anorexia, cachexia, dyspnoe, anemia, constipation, and severe dehydration. The cat was well-treated with some medications but it failed. Radiographs show that diaphragm line was not seen with some abdominal contents displacement into the thoracic cavity. Necropsy study revealed many lesions in characteristic of congenital diaphragmatic hernia due to diaphragm anomalies. Histopathologically, congestion and other lesions were found in heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, lymph node, and brain. Those lesions were found due to negative pressure effect which moved the intestine and a part of liver into the thoracic cavity. Therefore, the heart and lungs could not work normal then consequence of the death was caused by congestive heart failure.
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