Judul: The Construction of pCAMBIA 1303-Stilbene Syntase Recombinant DNA Preventive for Rotten Root Disease of Oil Palm
Abstrak: An oil palm is one of the important estate commodities in Indonesia. Nevertheless the effort to increase its productivity has many hindrances. One of them is rotten root disease caused by Ganoderma spp. New approach to get resistence oil palm toward Ganoderma attack is to insert gene produces substance played role as an antifungi. One of genes that produces antifungi is stilbene syntase gene derived from grapes (Vitis vinifera). The purpose of this research is to cloning stilbene syntase gene on to pCAMBIA 1303 expression vector between 35S CaMV promoter. Stilbene syntase gene was cloned on to pCAMBIA 1303 expression vector then to be transformed on to Escherichia coli XL-1 Blue and the last to be inserted on to Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The result of this research shows stilbene syntase gene was successful to be cloned to pCAMBIA 1303. This result was showed by two band sized 12000 bp (pCAMBIA 1303 plasmid) and 1500 bp (stilbene syntase gene) in agarose gel after have been restricted with SpeI and NcoI enzyme.
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Judul: Physiological and Molecular Analysis for Development of DNA Markers in Resistance to Basal Stem Rot Disease in Oil Palm
Abstrak: Basal stem rot (BSR) is a great disease concern in oil palm plantations. The cause of this disease is Ganoderma boninense, one of the fungi from the phylum Basidiomycota which can reduce oil palm productivity up to 40%. The higher generation planted in the oil palm plantations, the more widespread of the development of this disease in Ganoderma-infected areas. The response of oil palm resistance to BSR disease is very important to be discovered. The expression of genes involved in the resistance response is also a support in the superior plant material development for Ganoderma resistant in oil palm. The final objective of the study was to obtain molecular markers capable of selecting BSR disease-resistant plants in oil palm. The first experiment results “Differential expression of root specific genes of oil palm seedlings at early stage of Ganoderma boninense infection” showed two genes performed the highest transcript accumulation in susceptible treated with G. boninense. Ten out of the 16 genes belonged to Group I and the other six to Group. Seven out of the 16 genes were differentially expressed in the samples either with or without G. boninense inoculation. The seven genes may be associated with early infection responses to G. boninense. The second experiment results “Defense response changes in roots of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) seedlings after internal symptoms of Ganoderma boninense pat. infection” indicated that C01, C02, and C05 seedlings were susceptible, while the other three seedlings, C03, C07, and C08, were resistant based on Ganoderma Disease Index (GDI). Infection by G. boninense in the most susceptible seedlings C05 reduced fresh weight of roots (FW) by 9.0%, and lignin content by 10.9%. The most resistant seedlings C08 were reduced by only 8.4%, and 0.2% regarding their fresh weight and lignin content, respectively. BSR disease induced SA accumulation in the most susceptible C05 and decreased peroxidase (PRX) enzyme (EC 1.11.1.7) activities in root tissues of oil palm seedlings except C07 and C08 where PRX activities remained high in the 4 months after planting. Infection with G. boninense also increased glutathione S-transferase U19-like (EgGSTU19) gene expression in the root tissues of susceptible seedlings, while laccase-24 (EgLCC24) gene expression was associated with resistance against BSR disease. Based on the relative expression of twelve genes, two genes are categorized as receptors (EgWAKL5, EgMIK1), two genes as biosynthesis signal transduction compound (EgOPR5, EgACO1), five genes as defense responses (EgROMT, EgSOT12, EgLCC24, EgGLT3, EgGSTU19), and one gene as trans-resveratrol di-O-methyltransferase-like (EgRNaseIII) predicted related to BSR infection. While two other genes remain unknown (EgUnk1, EgUnk2). Ganoderma infection-induced SA accumulation and lignification in resistant accessions promote the seedlings root biomass. Oil palm seedlings have a synergistic physical, biochemical, and molecular defense mechanism to the BSR disease. The utilization of nucleotide-based molecular markers using EgLCC24 gene is able to detect resistant oil palm seedlings to G. boninense. The third experiment results “Genes expression analysis of EgUnk3, EgZFP2, and EgIPK2b in oil palm using Ct value correction and two relative quantification approaches” showed correlation regression obtained 0.28, -0.32, and 0.29 for delta Ct of EgUnk1, EgZFP2, and EgIPK2b, respectively.
Keyword: Ganoderma boninense, marker-assisted selection, lignification, gene expression, resistant to basal stem rot

Judul: Transisi Fasa Materi Hadronik ke Materi Kuark pada Inti Bintang Neutron.
Abstrak: Bintang neutron terdiri dari beberapa lapisan yang disusun oleh materi nuklir yang berbeda dengan kerapatan yang semakin tinggi ketika mendekati pusat bintang. Inti luar bintang neutron disusun oleh materi hadronik (nukleon, lepton, dan hyperon), sedangkan inti dalam bintang neutron disusun oleh kuark-kuark bebas (up, down, strange) yang saling berinteraksi. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mempelajari bagaimana transisi dari inti luar ke inti dalam bintang neutron dengan menggunakan pendekatan RMF (Relativistic Mean Field) untuk materi hadronik dan CIDDM (Confined Isospin Density Dependent Mass) untuk materi kuark. Tekanan transisi diperoleh ketika potensial kimia barion materi hadronik dan materi kuark bernilai sama. Nilai tekanan transisi dengan parameter SU6-TM1 sekitar 87 MeV/fm3 dan diperoleh massa maksimum bintang neutron yaitu 1.92M dengan jari-jari sekitar 8.62 km. Nilai tekanan transisi dengan parameter SU6-G2 sekitar 53 MeV/fm3 dan massa maksimum bintang neutron yaitu 1.88M dengan jari-jari sekitar 8.16 km. Jenis transisi fasa adalah orde satu ditandai dengan diskontinuitas dalam kerapatan energi (adanya mixed phase). Parameter-parameter pada model nuklir yang digunakan menyebabkan perbedaan kekakuan persamaan keadaan (EOS) dari materi hadronik dan materi kuark sehingga nilai tekanan transisi dari fasa hadronik ke fasa kuark juga berbeda.
Keyword: bintang neutron, persamaan keadaan, transisi fasa