PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC OF SALAK (SALACCA ZALACCA VAR. AMBOINENSIS) CV. GULAPASIR ON DIFFERENT GROWING ENVIRONMENTS

Salacca (Salak) is one of tropical fruits that was native of Indonesia and preferred by consumers due to the specific fruit flesh taste. The objective of the research was to obtain the phenotypic and genotypic of Gulapasir salacca plant on six growing environmental variability were Saribuana, Pajahan, Bangsing, Telaga, Kecing and Jungutan. Phenotypic characters was observed by morphological characteristics of salacca plant and genotypic character of salacca by an analysis of DNA using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method. Data were analyzed by using Bartlett's test, cluster analysis using the program Numerical Taxonomy and Multivariate Analysis (NTSYS version 2.1). Salcca plants cv. Gulapasir planted in Tabanan and Karangasem showed a phenotypic and genotypic variation. The coefficient of phenotypic similarity was based on ten quantitative characters ranging from 0.58 to 0.93 while the coefficient of genetic similarity was based on three primer ranges 0.50 - 0.80.