Identifikasi Fungi yang Berkembang pada Batang Sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) Pasca Penebangan

Abstract

HISAR PANJAITAN Identification of fungi that developed in post-harvest oil palm trunk. Under academic supervision of RIDWANTI and YUNASFI. The research aims to know the kinds of fungi that grow on palm trees after logging in the process of rejuvenation of palm trees. The research was conducted in Kebun Percobaan Tambunan A Universitas Sumatra Utara. Fungi isolated and identified in Microbiology Laboratory of the Department of Biology Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of North Sumatra. The research was conducted from September 2011 until November 2011. The results obtained, four types of fungi found on oil palm trunks that have been made a rejuvenation, wich is taken from four palm trees as a sample. for each tree, made a division at the base of the tree, middle, and end of the tree. From the results of isolation obtained the Arthrinium phaespermum, Chaetomium brasiliense, Penicillium simplicissimum and Ulocladium botrytis as a result of identification from the sample. The type of fungi that most identified from the palm trunk is a type of fungi Arthrinium phaeospermum