ANALYSIS OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS AND MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS IN INDONESIAN RODENT TUBER MUTANT CLONES OF PEKALONGAN ACCESSION USING GC-MS

Abstract

Rodent tuber (Typhonium flagelliforme Lodd.) is one of the considerable potential Indonesian medicinal plants. There are many origins of rodent tuber plants in Indonesia such as Pekalongan. Increasing genetic diversity of rodent tuber’s Pekalongan accession had been done by using gamma irradiation. Its produced 23 clones of the 7th generation of mutant plants. The focus of this study was on the analysis of biomass and bioactive compounds from those clones using GC-MS. The aim of this study was to determine new bioactive compounds which affect as anticancer in the 7th mutant generation of rodent tuber plant Pekalongan accession. The result showed that 8 mutant clones of rodent tuber had higher biomass than the control. 10 bioactive compounds were detected in the leaves from 7 mutant clones (20-1-1-2-2-3, 20-1-2-2-1-3, 20-1-2-1-2-2, 20-1-2-4-5, 20-1-1-1-3, 20-4-2-1-1-1, 20-1-2-1-2-6) and 7 bioactive compounds in the tubers from 9 mutant clones (20-1-1-2-2-3, 20-1-2-2-1-3, 20-1-2-1-2-2, 20-1-2-4-5, 20-1-1-1-3, 20-4-2-1-1-1, 20-1-2-1-2-6, 20-1-2-2-4-3, 20-1-2-2-3). The bioactive compounds in the mutant clones was 4 times greater than the control. Phytol isomer and eicosane were found as new bioactive compounds in the leaves. 5 new bioactive compounds were found in the tubers for example Hexadecanoic acid ethyl ester, octadecadienoic acid, squalene, beta, eicosane and octacosane. Gamma irradiation is an effective technique to increase the huge numbers of bioactive compounds which can be applied as anticancer, antitumor and antimicobial herbal medicine.