Judul: Uji potensi isolat lokal Aspergillus flavus sebagai penghasil aflatoksin
Abstrak: Aflatoxin is found in food and livestock feed in Indonesia. Aflatoxin is toxigenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, carcinogenic, and immunosuppresive compound. Hazardous potential of aflatoxin demands the avaibility of aflatoxin standard for analysis. Pure 55 strains of Aspergillus flavus were screened with ELISA to evaluate the potential yield of aflatoxin. Result of screening suggested that isolate S.26 contained the highest AFB1 (1212,3 ppb). This isolate was chosen for aflatoxin production on PDB (Potato Dextrose Broth) media and GAN (glucose ammonium nitrate) media with five replications. A. flavus from JCM was also grown in the same media under the same condition as the reference isolate to produce aflatoxins. TLC analysis results suggested that both A. flavus cultures from S.26 and JCM isolates grown on GAN showed no ability to produce aflatoxin while those grown on PDB could produce aflatoxin. Aflatoxin analysis of the A. flavus culture of S.26 isolate grown on PDB by TLC suggested that the highest aflatoxin production was reached at the ninth until twelfth day with a range of aflatoxin concentrations 200-500 ppb and the average of 310 ppb (n=5). Analysis of A. flavus culture of JCM isolate on PDB by TLC suggested that the highest aflatoxin production was reached at the twelfth day with a range of aflatoxin concentrations 150-400 ppb and the average of 240 ppb. HPLC analysis of A. flavus culture of S.26 isolate had the highest amount of aflatoxin of 935,8 ppb at the ninth day while A. flavus culture of JCM isolate had the highest aflatoxin production of 847,7 ppb at the twelfth day. A. flavus of local isolate (S.26) has higher potential in producing aflatoxins on PDB media compared to A. flavus of reference isolate (JCM). Production of alfatoxin might be affected by variations in nitrate source, initial pH, medium composition, and chain of serial transfers during preparation and analysis. The aflatoxin produced by A. flavus of local isolate in PDB media could be the candidate of aflatoxin standards which are essential for the analysis of aflatoxins by means of purification on column chromatography.
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Judul: Kajian Produksi Aflatoksin dari Isolat Kapang Aspergillus flavus
Abstrak: Aflatoxin is known as toxigenic compound as the secondary metabolite produced by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus. Aflatoxin is found both in food and feed in Indonesia. Aflatoxin standard is needed in every analysis of aflatoxin contamination. But it is rather difficult to get. It is imported, high costs, and take times. The aim of the research is to assess the potential local isolate of producing aflatoxin that can be used to be the alternative aflatoxin standard. The comparison with foreign isolate is done to observe the productivity of aflatoxin by local isolate. The result is shown that local isolate F0219 is potential to be the candidate of standard aflatoxin even the productivity is lower that the foreign isolate. The most suitable pH condition of incubation is in the value of 4.0, below that the production of aflatoxin is decent as well as in the alkaline medium. Temperature of 25oC is considered to be the most favorable condition by molds to grow and produce secondary metabolites. YES medium was proved to be the recommended medium for growing molds than modified GAN. Although aflatoxin production does not only depend on medium but also other external factors
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Judul: Penggunaan Metode Homotopi untuk Menyelesaikan Persamaan KdV (Korteweg-de Vries)
Abstrak: Natural phenomena can be explained using nonlinear mathematical models. In this paper, we studied the solution of KdV equation using the Homotopy method. The KdV equation is used for describing both surface and internal waves. One of the solutions is called a solitary wave. The use of homotopy method to solve the KdV equation required a nonlinear operator which was determined by the nonlinear form of the KdV equation itself. Based on this operator, a recursive formula was obtained to get a sequence of the KdV solution. The higher the sequence order of the sequence used, the closer to the exact solution of the KdV equation.
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