Kaempferia galanga L. A Medicinal Plant Used By Indonesian Ethnic Groups: Genetic Diversity Based on Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR)

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Journal of Agricultural Sciencewww.agrivita.ub.ac.id health and cancer (Wahyono, 2013). Kaempferia galanga L., known in Indonesia as kencur, is a medicinal plant used empirically by 109 ethnic groups and ranked as the16 th most used medicinal plant in traditional medicinal herbal formulas. The plant's rhizomes and leaves are used to treat common colds, coughs, wounds, headaches, ulcers, breast cancer, asthma and as an after-childbirth treatment (Wahyono, 2013). Kaempferia galanga L. a species in the family of Zingiberaceae, is perennial herbaceous plant and widely used as a medicinal plant, as a spice and in perfumery. K. galanga is possibly native to India, and distributed and widely cultivated throughout Southeast Asia, including southern China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and also introduced into northern Australia (Ibrahim, 1999). The plant is traditionally used for pharmacological treatments, since it has anti-inflammatory, analgesic (Umar, Zaini Bin Asmawi, Sadikun, Altaf, & Iqbal, 2011), antioxidant and antimicrobial properties (Rao V & Kaladhar, 2014).Rhizomes of K. galanga have been reported to have volatile oils with 50 constituents (97.19% of the oil), including ethyl cinnamate, ethyl-p-methoxycinnamate, γ-cadinene, 1,8-cineole, δ-carene, borneol, ethyl-mmethoxycinnamate, camphene, linoleoyl chloride and α-pinene (Kumar, 2014).Currently, K. galanga has been reported to be an endangered species, even though it is valuable as a medicinal and aromatic plant (Preetha, Hemanthakumar, & Krishnan, 2016). In its natural habitat the plant exhibits poor natural rhizomatous ARTICLE INFO

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