The Diversity of Cyanobacteria at Ranchan Waterfall and Toxicity Assessment by using High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Nurafiqah, Binti Mohd Adzami (2014) The Diversity of Cyanobacteria at Ranchan Waterfall and Toxicity Assessment by using High Performance Liquid Chromatography. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Cyanobacteria are microscopic algae known as blue-green algae and can undergo photosynthetic process. A study was carried out to identify the diversity of Cyanobacteria at Ranchan waterfall and Toxicity Assessment by using High Performance Liquid Chromatograhy (HPLC) at three different stations. The identification of cyanobacteria was conducted by using compound microscope. There are 41 genera of cyanobacteria was present at Ranchan waterfalls and out of this genera, only eleven genera of cyanobacteria was identified as potential toxin-producer which are Aphanizomenon, Cylindrospermopsis, Cylindrospermum, Lyngbya, Microcystis, Oscillatoria, Planktothrix, Pseudanabaena, Scytonema, Synechoccoccus, and Tolypothrix. As cyanobacteria can produce cyanotoxin that can cause harmful or health effects on human and other organism in this world, and the screening of cyanotoxin by using HPLC was conducted. In this study, there is negative result detected with standard microcystin-LR from the previous study as no culture technique was done in this experiment.

Item Type: Final Year Project Report
Additional Information: Project Report (B.Sc.) -- Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2014.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cyanobacteria, Diversity, Potential toxin-producer, HPLC, Microcystin-LR, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, undergraduate,postgraduate, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Subjects: S Agriculture > SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
Divisions: Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Depositing User: Karen Kornalius
Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2015 06:39
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2015 01:09
URI: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8283

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