Identifikasi Ganoderma spp. Menggunakan Teknik DNA Barcoding

Abstract

Oil palm is one of comodity plantation which is very important. One of the problems faced by the oil palm plantations are disease, namely Basal Stem Rot (BSR) which caused by Ganoderma spp. If plants were attacked by BSR, sooner or later, they would die and the production will decreased significantly. Consequently, in order to have an effective control of Ganoderma, an accurate identification is needed. This could be achieved by molecular techniques through DNA Barcoding method. The aim of this study was to is to find a specific primer for the identification of Ganoderma spp. that attack estate crops and their shade trees. Based on this research, it showed that the primer pair ITS1_F/ITS4_B has a high percentage of the ability to identify isolates of Ganoderma spp. compared with the other primer pairs, which are primer BenA F/ BenA_R, Gan_ITS1_F/Gan_ITS1_R, CO1_PenF1/CO1_PenR1, CO1_B_F/ CO1_B_R, and Gan_ITS2_F/Gan_ITS2_R. The primer pair ITS1_F/ITS4_B had a potential as a DNA barcode for identification of Ganoderma species.