Judul: Shoot architecture and its relation to photosynthesis production, and seed oil content of physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.)
Abstrak: Experiments on physic nut were conducted (1) to analyze branching and shoot pattern, and to observe flowering at various shoot architectures, (2) to determine physiological characteristics, leaf phyllotaxis and leaf morphology at canopy for determining reference’s leaf for photosynthetic measurement (3) to study shoot architecture with special emphasis on the number of primary branches that support optimum growth, production and oil content, and (4) to study shoot architecture by managing primary and secondary branches to support growth, production and oil content.
Keyword: Pruning, Photosynthesis, Oil content

Judul: Analysis of agronomic characters and isozyme of physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.) at wet climate
Abstrak: The research objective was to determine agronomic characters influencing productivity and genetic variability of several physic nuts in high rainfall area. The research used Completely Randomized Design with three replications of genotypes as follows IP-1A, IP-1M, IP-2P, Lombok Timur, Lombok Tengah, Sumbawa, and Bima genotypes. The direct or indirect effect of each characters was determined by path analysis. Analysis of isozyme experiment of the eight genotypes was also conducted. The experiment showed that the most productive physic nut in high rainfall area was the IP-2P genotype (558.33 kg/ha). The agronomic characters influencing the yield were number of secondary branches, number of productive branches, total leaves, number of inflorescence, number of fruits/plant, fruit weight, seed length, number of seeds/plant, dried seed weight, and weight of 100 seeds. Overall, the most important characters contributing to weight of dry seed per plant is the number of inflorescence (X7) and number of seed per plant (X12), as shown by their positive direct influence and correlation coefficient (P7y =0.51; r7y=0.98) and (P12y=1.10; r12y=0.99). It is concluded that the two characters can be used as the selection criteria for yield. Genetic variability based on qualitative characters was 0-14%, quantitative 17-81%, the isozyme analysis 2-25%, for combined qualitative characters with the isozyme was 1-13% and for combined qualitative characters, quantitative characters and isozyme was 6-33%.
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Judul: Infeksi Virus Parainfluenza Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Virus parainfluenza anjing termasuk famili Paramyxoviridae, berbentuk pleomorf dengan ukuran bervariasi (bergaris tengah antara 100-500 nm), berpembungkus peka ether, berisi genom RNA dan secara serologis mempunyai kesamaan dengan virus SV-5 kera; dikenak sebagai salah satu kausa penting dari sindrom "kennel cough". Infeksinya dapat mengenai anjing semua umur yang belum pernah terinfeksi atau mendapatkan vaksinasi mengakibatkan gejala klinis ringan yang terbatas pada traktus respirasi atu infeksi yang secara klinis tidak memperlihatkan gejala nyata. Gejala klinis yang nampak setelah masa inkubasi (1-5 hari) terlewati berupa batuk yang tidak berat selama beberapa hari, berbagai tingkat tonsilitis dan pharyngitis dan kadang-kadang ditemukan kenaikan temperatur rektal antara 1-2 derajat C dari temperatur normal rat-rata. Anjing terinfeksi mengandung virus pada traktus respirasi bagian atas dan bawah serta limfonoduli sampai hari ke 9 setelah infeksi. Penyebaran virus antar anjing terjadi secara aerogen.
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