Abstract
Identification of high yield clones of abaca (Musa textilis nee) mutants based on morphological characters
Highlights
Abaca (Musa textilis Nee) is one of the fibre crops originated from Philippines and known as Manila hemp (Zapico et al, 2010; Batalon et al, 2014)
Genetic materials used in this experimant consisted of 26 clones of abaca mutant resulted from chemical mutation using 0.6% ethyl methane sulphonate (EMS) (Table 1.)
Since morphological characters was performed an interaction between genetic and environment, these become important in identification of superiority plants
Summary
Abaca (Musa textilis Nee) is one of the fibre crops originated from Philippines and known as Manila hemp (Zapico et al, 2010; Batalon et al, 2014). In Indonesia, improvement of abaca high yielding varieties using conventional breeding is difficult due to the narrow genetic variability and the sterile seed obtained from abaca hybridization. Setyo-Budi et al (2001) reported that germplasm collection of abaca in Indonesian Sweetener and Fibre Crops Research Institute (ISFCRI) was only 47 accessions. This circumstance affects the difficulties of breeders to choose the parents for hybridization. An alternative solution in increasing genetic diversity is creating somaclonal variation by tissue culture techniques. This method has been widely applied to improve genetic variability of horticultural crops (Khrisna et al, 2016). The aim of this research is to identify the abaca mutants that are potential improved as high yield clones based on morphological characters
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