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Faculty of Agriculture Unud held a Virtual Lecture "Practical Lecture on Biotechnology"
DENPASAR
- The Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University held a Virtual Lecture with
the theme "Practical Lecture on Biotechnology". This discussion was
held on June 16, 2022 in the Dean's Room of the Agricultural Faculty of UNUD
which was located on the 2nd Floor of the Agrocomplex Building (Joint
Laboratory) of Udayana University, Jl. P.B. Sudirman, Denpasar. This activity
was held in a hybrid manner (offline and online) which was attended by
lecturers of the Faculty of Agriculture UNUD as participants and presented 2 speakers,
namely Prof. Ir. I Gede Putu Wirawan.M.Sc., Ph.d and Prof. Dr.Ir. Rindang
Dwiyani , M.Sc moderated by Dr. Trisna Agung Phabiola., SP., M.Si.
This
practical lecture began with a speech by the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture
Udayana who in his speech expressed his gratitude to the speakers and
participants who had attended this activity, "hopefully this activity can
provide benefits, especially in the world of agriculture", he added.
The
first speaker, Prof. Wirawan explained about the Potential of Medicinal Plants
in Indonesia, many of which are still not revealed and have not been
identified. To increase income and increase selling value in agriculture, one
way is to conduct research on various types of plants that can be used as
medicinal plants and phytochemically analyzed through GC-MS and carried out
molluscular identification with BARCODING DNA. The use of the technology above
certainly requires a special skill that can be done in the Biotechnology
concentration laboratory of the Faculty of Agriculture, for that Prof. Wirawan
invites all people who are interested in conducting research on this medicinal
plant to be developed together because what is interesting is that in various
regions in Indonesia there are a lot of plants that are known for their
potential and varieties so that sometimes the same plant is just different
communities are different in the mention, for example, there are purnajiwa
plants that call pranajiwa or padajiwa because it can be adjusted and known the
type and origin of the plant whether it is a plant native to Indonesia or a
plant that comes from outside Indonesia.
Furthermore,
the second speaker, Prof. Rindang, presented the material on the topic".
Plant Tissue Culture", Prof. Rindang explained that to get healthy
agricultural plant seeds and free from pathogens, it can be developed through
tissue culture or tissue culture. The tissue culture method is a method to
isolate part of a plant such as a group of cells or tissues grown with aseptic
conditions, so that the plant part can propagate itself to grow into a complete
plant again. The advantages of tissue culture compared to conventional
propagation of seedlings are; seedling propagation can be done quickly and on a
large scale, the continuity of seedling availability will be maintained all the
time, without having to wait for the fruiting season, the seedlings produced
will be the same as the mother, the degree of uniformity of seedling growth in
the field is high, cost-effective delivery /transportation, and pest-free
disease. Currently, Prof. Rindang has made plant seeds through tissue culture
from strwabery plants and banana plants that are free from viruses in Bali. And
this product has been tested molluscularly and the result is that the seeds of
this plant are free from viral pathogens so it is very helpful in providing
healthy seedling seeds for farmers.
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