Adaptive Evolution and Addressing the Relevance for Genetic Improvement of Sago Palm Commodity

Abstract

Adaptive evolution implies evolutionary shifts within an organism which make it suitable and adaptable for its environment. Genetic resources of sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottb.) populations in Indonesia were explicated as follows: (1) Characters of sago palm in Indonesia were shown varied based on cpDNA markers and large variation based on RAPD markers. (2) Variation of starch production of sago palm correlated with Wx genes variation, (3) Distances barrier and geographies isolation in line of sago palm dispersions in Indonesia (4) Characteristics of genetic were observed does not related with vernacular names those were given by local people (5) Papua islands, Indonesia territorial is proposed the center of sago palm diversities, (6) Papua islands, Sulawesi islands and Kalimantan islands will be the provenance of the diversities (7) Genetic improvement of sago palm might enhanced using molecular marker that link to interesting genes by developing marker-assisted breeding.

The Consequences of Sago Planting Hamlet Program on Socio-Cultural Changes of The Kamoro in Mimika Papua

“…There are about 8000 sago trees divided into the ownership of 141 households, where each house has 0.6 hectare, approximately 55 to 60 sago trees. These superior sago seeds imported from Jayapura and Sentani can grow faster than local natural sago seeds(Abbas, 2021;Limbongan, 2007). This superior sago can be harvested at the age of 5 to 8 years, much quicker than wild sago, which takes 10 to 12 years to reach a ready-to-harvest age.…”