Identification and phylogenetic analysis of sweet potatoes genotypes in subdistrict of Lembah Seulawah district of Aceh Besar

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify and create a data base on the diversity of sweet potato accession located in subdistrict of Lembah Seulawah District of Aceh Besar, has a diversity of accession of sweet potato genotype in subdistrict of Lembah Seulawah District of Aceh Besar to classify population that get high production and good fruit quality. The experiment was conducted in the area of sweet potato production center in exploratory survey method in Four Villages in subdistrict of Lembah Seulawah District of Aceh Besar, is Aceh, Saree, Blang Lambaro and Suka Mulia villages. The study was conducted from October to November 2017. The observations were made based on the identification and characterization of the International Agency List Description for Plant Genetic Resource Standards and the purposive random sampling technique. The results showed that there were 10 genotypes of sweet potatoes in Subdistrict of Lembah Seulawah District of Aceh Besar, which consisted of Aceh (A1, A2 and A3), Saree (A4, A5, A6, A7 and A8), Blang Lambaro (A9) and Suka Mulia (A10) with the closest relationship is A5 and A7 with coefficient similarity 29.227 and the furthest relation is A4 and A6 with coefficient of similarity 118,500.