Judul: Kemampuan Hutan Untuk Pelestarian Air Tanah di Berbagai Tutupan Lahan (Studi Kasus di Arboretum Arsitektur Lanskap IPB, Bogor)
Abstrak: Urban forest are such green open space component that function as environment support in case water structuring arrangement. Land water absorption parameter definition could determined by infiltration rate. Aim of this research was to measured water infiltration rate in several type of land closing which include in Arboretum Landscape. This research implemented on December 2013 - April 2014. Based on infiltration rate curve, could be seen that infiltration rate will began to saturated at hour 0.9 by highest infiltration rate 36 mm/hour, it was dense vegetation land. Land physical characteristic influence infiltration rate were bulk density, porosity and land organic material. Highest bulk density value on open land was 1.38 g/c m3 and lowest on roadside land about 0.98 g/cm3. Highest porositas value on manure land was about 63.04% and lowest porositas value on open land was about 47.7%. Highest organic material on dense vegetation land about 16.60% and lowest organic material value was about 2.20%.
Keyword: urban forest., land cover, Infiltration rate

Judul: Keragaan Infiltrasi Tanah Latosol pada Beberapa Penggunaan Lahan di DAS Ciujung
Abstrak: Land use is an important aspect in maintaining ecosystem sustainability, particularly in the watershed ecosystem. Land use determines to physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of soil. These soil characteristics influence to the growth of plants and the performances of water infiltration into soil. Infiltration is an essential part of the hydrological cycle that has an important role water availability in the soil. Infiltration process have an important role to the distribution of rainfall and control to runoff, flood, erosion and ground water storage and finally will determines the availability of river discharge in dry season. The aims of this research is to assess the performance of soil infiltration in various land use in Ciujung watershed. The study was conducted on three land use types that included plantative forest (HT), dense mixed garden (KCR), and less-dense mixed garden (KCTR). The field observation was done by using the Double Ring infiltrometer method, while the the analysis of the physical and chemical and other soil characteristics were done in the Laboratory of Soil and Water Conservation, Department of Soil Science and Land Resources, Faculty of Agriculture. The results of this research showed that the infiltration rate is strongly influenced by land use. Infiltration rate is the highest and most stable on HT land use, followed by KCR and KCTR. Constant infiltration rate at HT and KCR is belonging to quickly class, while at KCTR is relatively moderate to fast. The magnitude of the rate constant infiltration in HT (23.4 cm h-1) is higher than KCR (13.2 cm h-1) and KCTR (6.0 cm h-1). The high rate infiltration of the soil on the land use of HT support it able to accommodate as much water (6.45 dm3) that higher than at KCR (3,66 dm3) and at KCTR (1.52 dm3). Infiltration rate is influenced by pores with large size (PDSC), while the volume of water infiltration is more influenced by the total porosity of the soil. Besides it is influenced by land use, soil infiltration in the study area is also determined by the physical and chemical characteristic of the soil organic matter, bulk density, total porosity, aggregate stability, macro pores, very fast drainage pore (PDSC), and soil texture.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), infiltration volume., physical and chemical characterstics of soil, land use, Infiltration rate

Judul: Pengklonan gen VP28 Penyandi Viral Protein-28 dari virus white spot syndrome sebagai langkah awal produksi vaksin rekombinan udang penaeid
Abstrak: Usaha produksi udang dalam negeri saat ini sedang mengalami kendala akibat serangan penyakit white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) pada jenis udang windu (Penaeus monodon). WSSV yang termasuk virus DNA berukuran besar dapat menginfeksi udang dan berbagai jenis crustaceae lainnya. Virus ini merupakan patogen yang sangat ganas dan paling serius menyerang udang. Serangannya begitu cepat, sangat sulit dihentikan dan dapat mematikan 100% udang peliharaan dalam waktu 3-10 hari setelah munculnya gejala klinis. Serangan virus ini juga telah menghancurkan industri udang di berbagai negara. Infeksi WSSV ditandai dengan adanya bintik putih atau bercak putih pada eksoskeleton dan epidermis terutama pada bagian karapas udang. Hingga saat ini belum ada cara tradisionalyang efektif mencegah dan menanggulangi penyakit ini.
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