Abstract:
Aceh is one of the center areas of wild type and cultivated snake fruit (salak) as
it has a various topography. The massive deforestation resulted in reduced salak habitat
and salak diversity in Aceh. In addition, lack of information about salak kinship in Aceh
and difficulty in morphological-based taxonomic studies lead to the requirement of
molecular approach which facilitate the study of salak taxonomy. This study aimed to
reconstruct phylogenetic trees and analyze the kinship relationship of Salacca species in
Aceh based on rbcL gene sequence using neighbor joining method. DNA extraction
used CTAB method with modification. Phylogenetic analysis using neighbor joining
method showed that Salacca sp. (NH.07) Lembah Seulawah had the longest
evolutionary rate compared to other two salak samples.
