Judul: Optimasi Rendemen dan Mutu Agar-Agar dari Rumput Laut Gracilaria verrucosa dengan Metode Respon Permukaan
Abstrak: Usually, seaweed is widely used as agar. Problems that often arise in producing mainly of gelatinous seaweed Gracilaria is the difficulty of obtaining agar gel which has good characteristics such as strength, hardness and high gel cohesiveness. One reason is that there are sulfate esters in the agar. This study aims to capitalize on Gracilaria verrucosa obtained from the cultivation of the raw material for agar by analyzing the effect of adding acetic acid (CH3COOH) with a concentration of 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, extraction temperature 85, 90, and 95 ° C and soaking time for treatment of the addition of acetic acid (CH3COOH) such as 0.5, 1, dan1.5 hours on the yield and quality of agar produced from seaweed Gracilaria verrucosa. The design of experiments using a central composite design (CCD) with the analysis carried out by analysis yield, gel strength, moisture and ash content and optimization by the response surface method. Application response surface method in extraction of agar flour in order to demonstrate that the response of yield, gel strength, moisture content, and ash content obtained at the optimum concentration of acetic acid 0.50%, 0.64 hours of soaking time and extraction temperature 89.31 ° C with a value of desirability is 0.718 obtained yield amounts 18.28%, gel strength of 99.2 gf, 15.21% moisture content and ash content 4.58%.
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Judul: Pemanfaatan Rumput Laut Gracilaria verrucosa Sebagai Produk Bakto Agar dan Aplikasinya Dalam Media Pertumbuhan Mikroorganisme
Abstrak: Gracilaria verrucosa is a kind of seaweed cultivated in brackish water with water salinity of 6-14 ppt. Gracilaria produces a primary compound hydrocoloid metabolite called agarophyt. The aim of this study was to utilize Gracilaria as a bacto agar product with three methods of drying and also to apply bacto agar as a gelling agent in the microbial growth media. The source of Gracilaria sp used in this study was a seaweed that is cultivated by farmers in the village of Langen Sari, Subang. Characterization of raw materials included analysis of moisture content, ash content, protein content, fat content, and carbohydrate content. Acid treatment was carried out before the extraction processing which the acid treatment used of 1% CH3COOH. Temperature and extraction time constant were used at a temperature of 90oC for 45 minutes. Drying methods were done with three, oven dryer, spray dryer, and drum drier. The application of bacto agar as microbial growth media was applying the product by growing yeast and bacteria. Nutrient Agar has been used as a media for the growth of bacteria and Potato Dextrose Agar has been used as a media for the growth of yeast. The inoculation of microbial cultures performed in the plate agar media. In the plate agar media, syneresis occurred when the incubation was accomplished for 48 hours. Therefore additional tests were performed to determine the concentration of the bacto agar to reduce syneresis by testing the addition of gel strength with bacto concentration to 1.5%, 2%, and 2.5%.
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Judul: Biologi Troides helena helena dan Troides helena hephaestus (Papilionidae) di Penangkaran
Abstrak: Indonesia adalah negara kepulauan beriklim tropik dengan berbagai tipe habitat dan ekosistem. Kondisi alam Indonesia merupakan habitat yang cocok bagi berbagai fauna termasuk kupu-kupu. Diperkirakan sekitar 4 000 – 5 000 jenis kupu-kupu terdapat di Indonesia. Troides helena merupakan salah satu kupu-kupu yang memiliki kombinasi warna sayap indah dan berukuran besar, sehingga menarik perhatian kolektor kupu-kupu. T. helena termasuk satwa yang diperdagangkan dan telah memasukkan devisa dari subsektor kehutanan Indonesia. Untuk mencegah dari kepunahan karena eksploitasi yang berlebihan, maka pemerintah melindungi T. helena melalui PP No. 7 Tahun 1999. Semua genus Troides masuk dalam daftar Appendix II CITES, sehingga perdagangan jenis ini harus merupakan hasil budi daya di penangkaran.
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