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Lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) still significantly contributes to Indonesian food security. Water shortage and the availability of N fertilizers frequently become major constraints in rice production, so efficient use of N fertilizers and water-saving irrigation are more preferable. The objective of...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 2 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.2 2013 | 2020
Java long pepper is a native of Southeast Asia, cultivated in Indonesia as spice and medicinal plant. As traditional medicine, its fruits are used as aphrodisiac, carminative, expectorant, laxative, digestive, anti-amoebic, anti-asthma, anti-septic and also have activity against several infection ba...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.1 2013 | 2020
The experiment aimed to investigate response of two muskmelon varieties on calcium (ca) concentration of hydrophonic solid media. The experiment was arranged in a factorial completely randomized design. Muskmelon varieties of Clara and Ivory were cultured in hydrophonic solid media with calcium conc...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.1 2013 | 2020
Pod sucker bug, Riptortus linearis Fabricius. (Hemiptera: Alydidae) is an important insect pest on soybean in Indonesia that caused significantly yield loss. Growing the resistant soybean is a simple method, efficient, and friendly environment to control the insect pest in the field. The aim of th...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.1 2013 | 2020
Intensive soil tillage in sugarcane plantation may cause soil degradation including soil microorganism activities. The experiment was conducted at PT GMP to test the effect of soil tillage systems and bagasse application on arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi (AMF) population. The experimental design used w...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.1 2013 | 2020
Red-bean (Vigna angularia Wild) is very important in human life as source of vegetable protein and can be consumed in various processed products. In Indonesia, there are a lot of industrial activities using red-bean as main raw material. Unfortunately, red-bean is still imported to meet this demand....
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.1 2013 | 2020
The objectives of the experiment were to (1) investigate the effect of seed imbibitions period on inducing somatic embryo of peanut varieties, (2) determine the best imbibitions period. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design with eight replicates. Each experimental unit consis...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.1 2013 | 2020
The research on the effect of planting space treatment on the growth and yield of three accessions of local maize from Maros, Sulawesi Selatan was carried out at the Experimental Garden of Research Center for Biology LIPI, Cibinong on May – August 2012. The research study was arranged by Factorial...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013): Agrotropika Vol.18 No.1 2013 | 2020
The objective of this research was to evalu-ate the tolerance of peanut lines generated from Gamma ray iradiation against polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution stress. The peanut lines seeds of mutan M3 generation were used in this experiment. Peanut plants of cv. “Local Bima” were also tested as c...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 17 No. 2 (2012): Agrotropika Vol.17 No.2 2012 | 2020
One of the major constraints in Jatropha oil production is asynchronous fruit ripening, hence harvesting needs to be carried out accordingly which lead to drudgery. Therefore, an experimental study on the use of plant growth regulators was designed to induce synchronous fruits ripening. The study wa...
JURNAL AGROTROPIKA; Vol. 17 No. 2 (2012): Agrotropika Vol.17 No.2 2012 | 2020