Judul: Studies on flowering and isolation of APETALA1 gene in cacao (Theobroma cacao L.)
Abstrak: Kakao merupakan komoditas penting bagi Indonesia, baik secara ekonomi maupun sosial. Namun demikian, produktivitas perkebunan kakao di Indonesia masih rendah. Salah satu masalah yang mempengaruhi rendahnya produksi kakao tersebut adalah pembungaannya yang tidak konsisten. Pada perkebunan di daerah tropis, pohon kakao dewasa dapat berbunga sepanjang tahun, tetapi pembungaan terbesar terjadi pada saat pergantian dari musim kering ke musim hujan. Di luar musim tersebut, pembungaan pohon kakao dapat diinduksi dengan beberapa senyawa retardan. Kemajuan biologi molekuler juga telah berkontribusi secara nyata dalam menjelaskan beberapa proses biologi, termasuk proses pembungaan. Hal ini dapat membantu untuk mendapatkan solusi yang efektif berkaitan dengan masalah rendahnya produktivitas.
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Judul: Amplifikasi dan Karakterisasi In Silico Daerah Pengapit Ujung 5’ Gen APETALA1 Kakao (Theobroma cacao L.)
Abstrak: Cacao is one of important export comodities in Indonesia but its productivity is still in low category. The long juvenile phase is one of the cause of low productivity of cacao plantations. The effort to increase productivity drives on cacao studies of molecular flowering gene. In Arabidopsis, APETALA1 functions in earlier developmental stages in determination of the floral meristem identity and one of flowering identity genes that determines the formation of sepal and petal tissues. The purposes of the research are to amplify 5’-flanking regions APETALA1 gene from cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) and analyse its promoter characteristic. Amplification of 5’-flanking regions APETALA1 gene using Thermal Asymmetric Interlaced-PCR (TAIL-PCR) technique shows that spesific primer and arbitrary primer pairs can amplify the flanking region. Futhermore this fragment were transformed at competent cell E. Coli XL-1 Blue by using pGEMT Easy vector. The result of bioinformatic analysis using online promoter analysis software softberry shows undiscovered TATA box/enhancer on the amplified sequence and it contains 11 motifs of plant functional promoter element. Further analysis indicated that the amplified sequence belong to TATA-less promoter group with core motif microsatellite (CG)
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Judul: Characterizations of low alloy steel sae 4422  plated with chromic acid (Cro3)
Abstrak: Characterizations of low alloy steel SAE 4422 plated with chromic acid (CrOrO3) was use Optical Microscopy (OM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), RD),Energy Dispersive Analysis of X-Ray (EDAX), Hardness Test and Roughness Test. Microstructures analysis exhibits cracks and grain boundaries microcracks as a characteristics of chrome metal found at plating metal. Perlite and Ferrite as grains of steel found at base metal with grain boundaries around it. Phase analysis of plating metal appropriate to chrome metal with lattice constant (a) is 2.559 Å and phase analysis of base metal appropriate to iron ferrite with lattice constant (a) is 3.318 Å. Both plating and base metal have cubic system. Chemical analysis of plating metal at surface section exhibits that cracks area have highest value of carbon element compare with grains and grains boundaries area. While chemical analysis of base metal at cross section exhibits that perlite have highest value of carbon element compare with ferrite and grain boundaries. The hardness value of plating metal at surface section and cross section are 753 and 637 VHN. While, the hardness value of base metal and interface area at cross section are 205 and 373 VHN. The roughness value at measurement points of chrome surface for as received sample are 0.445 μm. Observation used Optical Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy exhibits surface irregularities combine to form surface texture of plating metal at surface section.
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