Aims: To invent the diversity and infestation of mistletoes and their hosts in several planting patterns of sengon (Falcataria falcata (Miq.) (L.) Greuter & R. Rankin).
Study Design: Explorative and descriptive.
Place and Duration of Study: Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia
at an altitude of about 100 - 900 m asl from September until December 2021.
Methodology: Data on mistletoes and their hosts was collected by
exploratory and descriptive methods in ten districts and twenty villages.
Purposive sampling was used and determined along tracks in line transects where
sengon cultivation was found. Sample plots of 10x10 m were determined and made
in each planting pattern to enumerate the number of mistletoes, hosts, and
infested hosts. They are used to determine the severity infestation of
mistletoes on the hosts.
Results: There were two species of mistletoe discovered in sixteen
planting patterns of sengon, i.e., Scurrula
atropurpurea (Blume) Danser and Viscum
ovalifolium L. S. atropurpurea
was the most dominant mistletoe with parasite number of 906 individuals. The
highest number of trees, infested trees, and mistletoes were obtained in the
monoculture pattern of sengon. The severity index of mistletoes infestation
varied between the planting patterns. The average value of the severity index
in all cultivation patterns of sengon was categorized as low.
Conclusion: Scurrula
atropurpurea (Blume) Danser and Viscum
ovalifolium L. are the two species of mistletoe discovered in the
cultivation of sengon in Malang Regency. The most dominant mistletoe was S. atropurpurea with a parasite number
of 906 individuals. The highest number of trees, infested trees, and mistletoes
were obtained in the monoculture pattern of sengon. The heaviest severity index
of mistletoes infestation was found in tangerine citrus + sengon i.e., 15. The
average value of the severity index in all cultivation patterns of sengon was
categorized as low, i.e., 5.28.
Author
(s) Details
Solikin Solikin
Research Center for Ecology and Ethnobiology, National Research and
Innovation Agency, Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor Km 46, Cibinong, Bogor West Java
16911, Indonesia.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/geserh/v3/3689
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