The purposes of this study were (1) to assess the effectiveness of drought tolerance indices for selection of drought tolerance in upland rice, and (2) to identify the most suitable drought tolerance indices to select for drought tolerant, high yielding upland rice genotypes. This study employed a Split Plot design consisting of irrigation levels as the main plots, and rice genotype as the sub-plot treatments. There were three main plots: 100% field capacity (FC); 75% FC; and 50% FC level. The subplot treatments consisted of 40 upland rice genotypes. Grain yields under no-stress and stressed conditions were used to calculate drought tolerance indices. There were significant variations in grain yields and drought tolerance indices between different rice genotype treatments. The indices from the literature found to be most suitable for the selection of drought tolerant upland rice cultivars were STI, GMP, MRP, HARM, REI, ATI, YI, SNPI. Ten genotypes from among the 40 tested-namely HK-07, ADN-04, PMK-01, ADN-05, NGR-022, ALR-02, HK-06, and KMD-01-were selected as combining drought tolerance with high yield potential.

Abstract. Firawati I, Murwantoko, Setyobudi E. 2017. Morphological and molecular characterization of hairtail (Trichiurus spp.) from Indian Ocean, southern coast of East Java,. The objective of this study was to identify species of hairtails (Trichiurus spp.) which caught from the southern coast of East Java, based on morphology and molecular characters. Three hundred and forty-nine fish samples were collected from two fishing port i.e. Muncar and Prigi. Twenty-two morphometric and four meristic characters were measured from each sample. The result showed that the hairtail samples consisted of two species, T. lepturus and T. brevis based on morphology characters. Based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA), these species can be distinguished by the head and caudal character, which the length of an upper jaw and caudal peduncle characters were the main distinguish. Analysis of fragment (~600 bp) of the mitochondrial DNA encoding 16S rRNA gene showed that T. lepturus samples were 100% genetically identical with T. lepturus while T. brevis samples were 100% identical with T. brevis. Phylogenetic analysis showed that T. lepturus and T. brevis were distinct species while T. lepturus both which caught from Prigi and Muncar were closely related species. The molecular identification can be used to verify the result of morphological identification.

A number of promising sweet potato clones from East Nusa Tenggara and a checked cultivar were evaluated in several locations for the following objectives: 1) to elucidate genotype by environment effect on growth and yield of the sweet potato clones, and 2) to determine growth and yield stability of the clones across diverse locations in East Nusa Tenggara province. The study was carried out in four locations and was laid out in a Randomized Block Design consisting of 10 sweet potato genotypes as treatments and two replicates. Obtained data were subjected to combined analysis of variance to determine GxE interaction, followed by stability analysis based on joint regression model of Eberhart and Russell. Research results revealed that genotypes, locations and genotype by location interaction posed significant effect on the observed variables. Most of the evaluated clones were unstable for vegetative growth characters but were stable for tuber yield and yield components. The local clone LB-01 produced the highest mean tuber yield over all locations, averaging at 4.15 kg.plant -1 (~ 46.11 t.ha -1 ). Two local clones, i.e. ON-06 and LB-01, and the check cultivar Kidal were the most stable clones for tuber yield and yield components across diverse environments.

Groundnut is the most important pulse crop in East Nusa Tenggara (ENT); however, the crop yield in ENT is low due to erratic climatic condition, drought stress, and low yielding ability of most cultivated genotypes. Local Rote is a well-known local groundnut variety in ENT, which is a potential superior variety and parental source due its large seed size and high yielding ability. Information on its resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses is important for its future development. Five groundnut genotypes, Local Rote and check varieties were elucidated to identify drought resistant genotypes. The study was carried out in a split-plot design with three replicates in two locations during dry season 2013. Two irrigation regimes (optimum and stress conditions) were assigned as main plot and 5 groundnut genotypes as sub-plot. Research results revealed significant effect of irrigation by genotype interaction on observed yield and yield component characters in both locations. Seed yields of most tested genotypes were below their yield potential. Local Rote yielded best over two locations (1.26 t.ha -1 seed yield). Yields of check varieties were below 1.0 t.ha -1 . Local Rote was considered tolerant to drought based on STI, GMP, SSI and YL selection indices.

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