Judul: Utilization of enhanced random amplified polymorphic DNA (E-RAPD) for geneticc variability analysis on plantlets of smooth cayenne pineapple, Ananas comosus L. Merr.
Abstrak: Recently, RAPD markers have been widely used in speeding up and assisting practical plant breeding, crop improvement or plant characterization. RAPD is known as in-expensive and simple technique with a number of advantages: (1) universal set of oligonucleotide primers can be used for all plant species, (2) a large number of samples may be easily and rapidly characterized, (3) automatically process. However, RAPD those commonly use 10-base oligonucleotides of primers amplify target DNA sequences randomly and have low reproducibility. In this research, 11-base oligonucleotides of primers have been utilized as enhanced-RAPD (e-RAPD). Utilization of this e-RAPD has been evaluated on Smooth Cayenne pineapple plantlets obtained from tissue culture as target DNA materials. The e-RAPD has been expected increase specificity of DNA amplified products than RAPD's, result in easier to analyze and more reproducible. Beside of those, it has been expected amplifiable on this DNA genome of Smooth Cayenne pineapple plantlets and can be used to evaluate genetic variability among the plantlets. The DNA sample materials from plantlets of 20 combination treatments were isolated base on CTAB methods with some of modifications, and precipitated by phenol chloroform isoamyl alcohol. Primer 11-mers as enhancer of RAPD markers were selected on four single primers (SOB-1, SOB-2, SOB-3, and SOB-4) and its six combinations. Total volume of each amplification reaction was 25 μl which consisted of buffer 2.5 µl, MgCl 2 ul, dNTP 1 ul, primer 2 ul, DNA sample 1.5 ul. Taq polymerase 0.2 µl, and sterilized deionized water 15.8 µl. The PCR selected profile programmed pre-denaturation at 94 °C; 1.5", 45 cyles with each denaturation 94 °C; 0.5", annnealing 37 °C; 1', and elongation 72°C; 2", then final elongation at 72°C; 4. In evaluating the e-RAPD's products, the data of DNA amplified products on five treatment samples obtained from RAPD reaction of primer 10-mers (OPE-7) has been compared in analysis process. The e-RAPD results using four selected primers (SOB-1, SOB-1-2, SOB-2-3, SOB-3-4) has successfully amplified DNA genome of Smooth Cayenne pineapple plantlets. However it is not optimal yet. The best results of e-RAPD's Cabe obtained by precisely optimization of PCR program and the optimal concentration of all reaction reagents, such as optimization on the annealing temperature, the amount of DNA samples, and concentrations of dNTP, MgCl2, and Tag polymerase. The e-RAPD produced 57 total fragments which all 100% showed as polymorphic DNA. The dendogram clustering perform the high variability among all treatments. Treatment of BA 13.32 µM combined with NAA 2 µM show the shortest genetic distance to control treatment without exogenous hormones. This variability which refers to somaclonal variations may occur after tissue culturing. It can be caused of some posible factors, such as the using of exogenous hormones, subculture frequency, explant type, micropropagation system, and other technical defects.
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Judul: Genetic parameter analysis  and  development of selection criteria for pineapple  improvement (ananas comosus (l.) Merr.) in Indonesia.
Abstrak: Information of genetic variability, heritability an d correlation between quantitative characters with yields is very important to support Pineapple Hybridization Program in Indonesia. This study has been conducted in four topics namely: (1) estimation of genetic parameters at some quantitative characters of pineapple germplasm, (2) study on correlation between some quantitative characters of pineapple germplasm, (3) study on genetic variability of pineapple crosses based on morphology and RAPD markers, (4) multivariate analysis and selection of the PKBT ‘Queen’ x ‘Smooth Cayenne’ hybrid collection for superior high yield and fruit quality. The objectives of the first topic were to examined the genetic variability and heritability of the agronomic characters of germpla sm collection. A total of 26 accessions of pineapple germplasm collection were used in this study. The results of the research showed that the leaf number, leaf l ength, number of hapas, days to flowering, days to harvest, peduncle length, peduncle diameter, fruit weight, fruit length, number of spirals, flesh thickness, total acid and vitamin C content have wide genetic variability. The leaf number, leaf length, number of hapas, number of suckers, days of flowering, days to harvest, fruit length, number of spirals, flesh thickness, total acid and vitamin C content have high heritability value. The characters which have high genetic gain (> 50%) were peduncle length and vitamin C content.
Keyword: morphology marker, RAPD marker, independent culling level selection, truncation selection, selection index

Judul: Hamiltonian formulation for linear waves motion in two layers fluid
Abstrak: The surface wave could be considered as a wave that separates two fluids, namely water and air. Based on this assumption, it is introduced the interfacial wave, a wave between two layers of fluid with different density. The formulation of interfacial waves motion begins with deriving the base equation of irrotational ideal fluid. Furthermore, according to irrotational fluid assumption, the base equation can be stated in velocity potential. In this derivation, the fluids domain is assumed to be restricted by rigid lid boundary conditions, both at the upper and lower limit. Therefore, the interfacial waves motion can be explained in a hamiltonian formulation. In the hamiltonian formulation, total energy is defined as the sum of kinetic and potential energy. The hamiltonian system is obtained from reduction of kinetic energy by using the Dirichlet Neumann Operator. The resulted kinetic energy equation is nonlinear. Therefore, this form is linearized by first part of the Taylor expansion. This linearization gives a dispersion relation of linear wave. Based on this dispersion relation, the phase speed of the linear wave depends on the density ratio of the two layers fluid.
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