Publications by authors named "A Soffan"

Since introduced from West Africa at 40 years ago, Faust. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is still the main pollinator agent of oil palm plantation in Indonesia until now. Unfortunately, the success rate of pollination in various regions in Indonesia is relatively different, for example in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

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There were two most found genera of plant parasitic nematodes from garlic plantation in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia which suffered losses due to bulb rot, and . Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) was conducted using a pair of universal nematode primer (D2A/D3B) to determine the and species from those host. Both genera were amplified at ~780 bp.

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Tea Mosquito Bug (TMB), (Hemiptera: Miridae) is one of the major pest infesting tea and cocoa plantations worldwide. Developing olfaction-based control methods was urges as an alternative to commonly used but non-environmental friendly chemical pesticides. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying TMB reception mechanism are still lacking.

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The increasing production of banana is hampered by the spread of banana plant diseases, one of which is caused by a group of bacteria, including those of causing wilt diseases. In Indonesia, blood disease is one of the important banana wilt diseases since loss due to the infection can reach up to 50%. There are numerous publications on the pathogen identification causing banana blood disease based on the molecular approach, however to date, no detailed molecular data are available for the interaction of banana host plant against the pathogen.

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