Deteksi dan analisis sekuen gen inhibitor proteinase pada beberapa klon kakao harapan tahan penggerek buah kakao dari Sulawesi Selatan

Abstract

Cacao is socially and economically an important commodity to Indonesia, in which the cacao plantations have been challenged with a threatening pest, cacao pod borer (CPB). This research aimed to identify and clone PIN (proteinase inhibitor), a gene carrying resistance of plant to some chewing pests like CPB. The methodology included several experiments. Detection of PIN in cacao was done by PCR using PIN-specific heterologous primers and cacao genomic DNA as templates. Cloning vector pGEM-T was utilized to clone the PCR products. Sequence analysis was conducted with BlastX and Blast Special programs from NCBI. Alignment analysis to determine genetic similarity was performed with ClustalW from EBI. Thirteen out of the 18 clones tested, were detected to have PIN homologs. Two DNA fragments from cacao clones putatively tolerant to CPB, MJ-1 and LW-1, were sequenced. One of them, MJ-1 was cloned. Sequence analyses of the fragments of both cacao clones, indicated that they have PIN homologs and a very closed genetic relation with 96% level of similarity.