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Sputatrix or Java Cobra Naja is a high venomous snakes. This snake could be hemotoksik or damaging blood cells and also neurotoxic or damaging nerve cells. In addition,in endangered situation, this snakes could spray its venom to crippled its opponent. Javanese people called this snake as a spoon snake for neck that could be flattened shape…

Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) are the soil bacteria inhabiting around/on the root surface and are directly or indirectly involved in promoting plant growth and development via production and secretion of various regulatory chemicals in the vicinity of rhizosphere. One of Department of Biology Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA) Professor, Prof. Dr. Aris Tri Wahyudi M.Si., started his PGPR research on 2005 until now focusing on indigenous soil PGPR. Through his research program, Prof. Dr. Aris Tri Wahyudi…

(Adapted from IPB website) Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) together with Hokkaido University, Thamasat University, Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), and Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) had successfully held PARE (Population, Activities, Resources, and Environment) Spring School. Of 40 graduate students from Japan, China, Indonesia, and Thailand successflully completed the Spring School which lasted for two weeks (9-20 March 2015). Several graduated student were student of Master Program of Microbiology. In this…

Today, March 25, 2015,Department of Biology, Bogor Agricultural University have a meeting with Faculty of Sciences, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. This meeting was attended by five staffs of Universiteit Leiden: Prof. Hendrik (Hans) Huibert de Iongh, Ph.D as Head Department of Conservation Biology, Prof. Herman P. Spaink as Director Institute of Biology, etc. Meanwhile, IPB represented by Dr. Sri Nurdiati as…

The Order Odonata had quite large numbers of members and easily recognizable. It had two pairs of wings and are membranous. In big dragonfly could be found clear veins and on the head, was found big facet eyes. Incomplete metamorphosis (Hemimetabola), in the larva stadium, it was additional tools such as gills and lived in the water. Its members are known as predators of several types of…