Authors:
Yudithia maxiselly , Intan Ratna Dewi Anjarsari, Ade Ismail, Titis Kurniawan, Debby Ustari, Haris Maulana, Syariful Mubarok |
Abstract:
Diabetes mellitus is a serious disease that causes dysfunction of organs. Therefore, prevention and its treatment are always developed. The development of natural medicine is increasingly conducted since people prefer to live "back to nature". Jengkol is one of the natural resources of tropical plant that potentially used as a natural medicine for diabetes mellitus (DM). Unfortunately, there are not any studies have been reported that variety of Jengkol consists of the best components for DM. This study aimed to obtain data on spread patterns and variety of jengkol plant in Sumedang of West Java. The study was conducted from February until July 2015 including several regions of Sumedang through exploration and purposive sampling. Morphological characters were collected using in situ characterization method. The Clustering and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) showed that two accessions of Jengkol, JG4 and JG14, indicated different cluster comparing to another Jengkol accessions in term of fruit and flower characters. In addition, the character of fruit and flower were identified had the highest contribution on Jengkol variation in Sumedang, West Java. This research result can be used for the development of jengkol as natural medicines on related studies in the future |
