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Pandan (Pandanus sp), Rotan (Calamus sp), and Rengas (Gluta sp) from Kajuik Lake, Riau Province, Indonesia

ABSTRACT

Pandan (Pandanus sp), Rotan (Calamus sp), and Rengas (Gluta sp) are the three most important plants growing at Kajuik Lake, Langgam, Riau Province, Indonesia; however, their species names have not been identified. This study aimed to identify their species names using nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequences. The method employed was DNA isolation from fresh leaves, PCR using primer pairs of ITS region for Pandanus sp and psbA-trnH intergenic spacer for Calamus sp and Gluta sp, electrophoresis, sequencing, and data analysis using BLASTn program and MEGA software version 6.0. Pandanus tectorius was the only one accession that was similar to Pandanus sp with the identity was 90%, however the query cover was too small, only 39%. On the contrary, Calamus sp showed the highest genetic similarity to Calamus travancoricus, but in fact, both were differed morphologically. There was no database of psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence available for species in Gluta. In conclusion, the species names for those plants still could not be determined. It because they might be the identified plants but their sequences databases were not available in large quantities or they were new species which had never been identified and published in public database.

Key words:
Calamus sp; Gluta sp; ITS; Pandanus sp; psbA-trnH intergenic spacer

INTRODUCTION

Pandan (Pandanus sp), Rotan (Calamus sp), and Rengas (Gluta sp) are the three most important plants growing at Kajuik Lake, Langgam, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia. They play a role to maintain the quality and the quantity of water in the river, to resist erosion, as a source of nutrients for fishes in the river, as well as to support a life of water animals, birds, insects, and others [11 Banner A, MacKenzie W. Riparian Areas: Providing Landscape Habitat Diversity, Part 5 of 7. Extension Note. British Columbia: Ministry of Forests Research Program; 1998.,22 Price P, Lovett S. Managing Riparian Land. Fact Sheet 1. Canberra: Land & Water Australia; 2002.,33 Pease AA, Davis JJ, Edwards MS, Turner TF. Habitat and resource use by larval and juvenile fishes in an arid-land river (Rio Grande, New Mexico). Freshwater Biol. 2006; DOI:10.1111/j.1365- 2427.2005.01506.x.
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]. In addition, those are also important for humans, for instances, Pandan as the raw for making pandanus mats, medicines, food flavorings and colorings, while Rotan as the raw material for furniture and Rengas as making buildings [55 Thomson LAJ, Englberger L, Guarino L, Thaman RR, Elevitch C. Pandanus tectorius (pandanus), ver. 1.1. In: CR Elevitch (ed.). Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry. Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawai. 2006. http://www.traditionaltree.org.
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Those plants are recently identified at genus-level where the identification is based on morphological characteristics [88 Elvyra R, Yus Y. Ikan Lais dan Sungai Paparan Banjir di Provinsi Riau. Pekanbaru: UR Press Pekanbaru; 2010.]. It needs to do further studies for species-level identifying because the determination of species name correctly is a fundamental thing which is important for the next studies, for examples, the study of physiology, biochemistry, genetics, economic values, etc. so that the plants can be used more widely.

Normally, the approach for plant identification is done based on morphological characteristics [99 Pasaribu N. Two new species of freycinetia (pandanaceae) from Sumatra, indonesia. Reinwardtia. 2010; 13(2): 147-150.;1010 da Silva NR, Florindo JB, Gómez MC, Rossatto DR, Kolb RM, Bruno OM. Plant Identification Based on Leaf Midrib Cross-Section Images Using Fractal Descriptors. PLoS ONE. 2015; 10(6): e0130014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130014
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;1111 Sofiyanti N, Mat-Salleh K, Mahmud K, Mazlan NZ, Hasein MRA, Burslem DFRP. Rafflesia parvimaculata (Rafflesiaceae), a new species of Rafflesia from Peninsular Malaysia. Phytotaxa. 2016; 253(3): 207-213.;1212 Roslim DI, Herman, Sofyanti N, Chaniago M, Restiani R, Novita L. Characteristics of 22 cassavas (manihot esculenta crantz) from Riau Province, Indonesia. SABRAO J Breed. and Genet. 2016; 48(2): 110-119.] because it is easier, faster, and cheaper, yet this approach has some limitations or constraints. The obstacles encountered in the earlier identification of those plants is the difficulty in finding the complete organs of the plants especially the flowers and the fruits because the plants bloom and produce fruit in rainy season during which the water surface of Kajuik Lake is high so that the access to go there is not available [88 Elvyra R, Yus Y. Ikan Lais dan Sungai Paparan Banjir di Provinsi Riau. Pekanbaru: UR Press Pekanbaru; 2010.].

Today, there is a new approach for determination or classifying of species, called DNA barcoding, using a short piece of DNA from the investigated organism genome. Since it was first discovered in 1993 until now, the DNA barcoding has been developed and used to identify various organisms [1313 Hebert PDN, Cywinska A, Ball SL, deWaard JR. Biological identifications through DNA barcodes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 2003; 270: 313-321.;1414 Hebert PDN, Stoeckle MY, Zemlak TS, Francis CM. Identifi cation of birds through DNA barcodes. PLoS Biol. 2004; 2: e312.;1515 Pinto FCJ, de Lima DB, Agustini BC, Dallagassa CB, Shimabukuro MF, Chimelli M, Brand D, Fadel-Picheth CMT, Bonfim TMB. Morphological and molecular identification of filamentous fungi isolated from cosmetic powders. Braz. Arch. Biol. Technol. 2012; 55(6): 897-901.]. This approach has become a promising technique and a new great hope for non taxonomists. The DNA barcoding technique is developed because of the difficulty in identifying some of the specimens which were morphologically indistinguishable, not intact or damage, and reproductive organs can not be found. Even an expert is not able to identify the specimen as it is. Following the discovery of DNA barcoding, non taxonomists can identify some specimens [1313 Hebert PDN, Cywinska A, Ball SL, deWaard JR. Biological identifications through DNA barcodes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 2003; 270: 313-321.].

Two sequences, i.e. rbcL and matK genes, have been assessed and recommended as the barcodes for molecular identification of plant specimens [1616 CBOL Plant Working Group. A DNA barcode for land plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2009; 106: 12794-12797. doi: 10.1073/pnas. 0905845106 PMID: 19666622.
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,1717 Lahaye, R., Bank, M. V., Bogarin, D., Warner, J., & Pupulin, F. DNA barcoding the floras of biodiversity hotspots. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2008; 105: 2923-2928.]. Some other barcodes have also been developed for molecular identification necessity of higher plants, like the nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region [1818 Pang X, Liu C, Shi L, Liu R, Liang D, Li H, Cherny SS, Chen S. Utility of the trnH-psbA intergenic spacer region and its combinations as plant DNA barcodes: A meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 2012; 7(11): e48833. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048833.
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;19], matK [1616 CBOL Plant Working Group. A DNA barcode for land plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2009; 106: 12794-12797. doi: 10.1073/pnas. 0905845106 PMID: 19666622.
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], and psbA-trnH intergenic spacer region [1919 Bolson M, Smidt EdC, Brotto ML, Silva-Pereira V. ITS and trnH-psbA as efficient DNA barcodes to identify threatened commercial woody Angiosperms from Southern Brazilian Atlantic rainforests. PLoS ONE. 2015; 10(12): e0143049. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143049
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,2121 Kress WJ, Wurdack KJ, Zimmer EA, Weigt LA, Janzen DH. Use of DNA barcodes to identify flowering plants. PNAS. 2005; 102(23): 8369-8374.,2222 Kress WJ, Erickson DL. A two-locus global DNA barcode for land plants: The coding rbcL gene complements the non-coding trnH-psbA apacer region. PLoS ONE. 2007; 2: e508].

The DNA sequence of ITS region is positioned in nuclear genome that is separated or located between genes coding 18S rRNA, 5.8S rRNA, and 26S rRNA. The number of ITS sequence in plant nuclear genome is abundant or multicopy and its universal primer is available [2323 White TJ, Bruns TD, Lee SB, Taylor JW. Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics. In: PCR Protocols and Application: A Guide to Methods and Applications. Academic Press, Inc. 1990.], so it is easy to be amplified; therefore, it is often used to identify plants [2424 Ali MA, Gyulai G, Hidve´gi N, Kerti B, Al Hemaid FMA, Pandey AK, Lee J. The changing epitome of species identification - DNA barcoding. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 2014; 21: 204- 231.]. The psbA-trnH intergenic spacer region and matK gene

are located in plant chloroplast genome (cpDNA) and are commonly used to identify plants [2424 Ali MA, Gyulai G, Hidve´gi N, Kerti B, Al Hemaid FMA, Pandey AK, Lee J. The changing epitome of species identification - DNA barcoding. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 2014; 21: 204- 231.]. The psbA-trnH intergenic spacer region has high variability between species and is easy to be applied in angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns, moss, and liverworts [1919 Bolson M, Smidt EdC, Brotto ML, Silva-Pereira V. ITS and trnH-psbA as efficient DNA barcodes to identify threatened commercial woody Angiosperms from Southern Brazilian Atlantic rainforests. PLoS ONE. 2015; 10(12): e0143049. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143049
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,2222 Kress WJ, Erickson DL. A two-locus global DNA barcode for land plants: The coding rbcL gene complements the non-coding trnH-psbA apacer region. PLoS ONE. 2007; 2: e508]. The matK gene is encoding maturaseK protein and has high subtitution mutation levels so that it is frequently used in plant phylogenetic analysis [2525 Patwardhan A, Ray S, Roy A. Molecular markers in phylogenetic studies- A Review. J Phylogen. Evolution Biol. 2014; 2: 131. doi:10.4172/2329-9002.1000131.
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].

This study reports identification of the three plants from Kajuik Lake using ITS region and psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequences.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Materials

The plant materials used in this study were Pandan (Pandanus sp), Rotan (Calamus sp), and Rengas (Gluta sp) plants. The plants samples were taken from Kajuik Lake, Kampar River, Langgam, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia.

The primer pairs used in this study were designed based on the DNA sequence available in GenBank database, i.e: ITS_F: 5’-ATC CTG CCT AGC AGA ATG AC-3’, ITS_R: 5’-GCG TTG GTA AAG AGC AGA TT-3’, and psbA-trnH_F: 5’-TGT CGA AGC TCC ATC TAC AA-3’, and psbA-trnH_R: 5’-TTG ATC CAC TTG GCT ACA TC-3’.

Total DNA Isolation

The total DNA was extracted from the fresh leaves of each plant sample using DNeasy plant mini kit (Qiagen). The quality and the quantity of DNA were predicted using electrophoresis on 1.2% agarose gel in 1X TBE buffer (Tris-Borate-EDTA pH 8.0) at 65 volts for 30 minutes.

DNA Amplification using PCR ( Polymerase Chain Reaction ) Techique

The total DNA of Pandan (Pandanus sp) was amplified using primer pair of ITS_F/ITS_R, while Calamus sp and Gluta sp were amplified using a primer pair of psbA-trnH_F/psbA-trnH_R.

Amplification was performed in 50 ul PCR reaction with the following components: 1X PCR buffer (plus Mg2+), 0.1 mM dNTPs, 2.4 μM primer forward, 2.4 μM primer reverse, 2 U enzim Dream Taq DNA polymerase (Thermo Scientific), and 1 ng DNA total, and water [2626 Porebski S, Bailey LG, Baum BR. Modification of a CTAB DNA extraction protocol for plants containing high polysaccharide and polyphenol components. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 1997; 15(1): 8- 15.]. The PCR analysis was performed with the following conditions: 5 minutes at 94 °C for 1 cycle followed by 45 seconds at 94 °C, 45 seconds at 47 °C, and 1 minute at 72 °C for 35 cycles, and ended with 1 cycle of post-PCR for 10 minutes at 72 °C.

Electrophoresis

The PCR products were then migrated at 1.2% agarose gel in 1X TBE buffer, at 65 volts for 1 hour. The gel was soaked in 5 μg/ml ethidium bromide solution to stain the DNA and then the DNA bands were observed under the UV lamp transilluminatior (WiseUv WUV-M20, Daihan Scientific) and were documented using a digital camera (Olympus SP-500 UZ).

PCR Purification and Sequencing

Sequencing was performed to determine the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule. The PCR products were then sent to PT Genetika Science in Jakarta to be purified and sequenced at 1st Base Malaysia in two directions using the PCR primer pairs.

Data Analysis

The DNA sequences were analyzed and aligned using MEGA software version 6.06 (Build#: 6140226) (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) and BLASTn program (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) at http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/ BLAST [2727 Altschul SF, Madden TL, Schaffer AA, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Miller W, Lipman DJ. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acid Res. 1997; 25: 3389-3402.].

RESULTS

Total DNA Molecules and DNA Fragment of ITS and psbA-trnH Intergenic Spacer Regions

In this study the total DNA from Pandanus sp, Calamus sp, and Gluta sp was intact, not degraded, and sufficient for PCR processing (Fig. 1). The PCR product of ITS region of Pandanus sp was 559 bp, psbA-trnH intergenic spacer region of Calamus sp was 670 bp, and Gluta sp was 639 bp (Fig. 2). Those were sufficient for the sequencing process requirement.

Figure 1
Total DNA molecules of (1) Pandanus sp, (2) Calamus sp, and (3) Gluta sp that migrated on 1.2% agarose gel in 1X TBE buffer. (M) 1 kb DNA Ladder.

Figure 2
The DNA fragment of ITS of Pandanus sp and psbA-trnH intergenic spacer region of Calamus sp and Gluta sp that migrated on 1.2% agarose gel in 1X TBE buffer. (M) 1 kb DNA Ladder, (1) Pandanus sp, (2) Calamus sp, and (3) Gluta sp.

Pandan ( Pandanus sp) from Kajuik Lake, Kampar River, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia

The DNA sequence of ITS sizing 599 bp of Pandanus sp had been obtained (GenBank accession number: KX304062) (Fig. 3) and its BLASTn analysis also had been performed (Table 1).

Figure 3
The ITS sequence of Pandanus sp from Kajuik Floodplain Lake, Kampar Floodplain River, Pelalawan District, Riau Province, Indonesia.

Table 1
The alignment analysis using BLASTn of the ITS sequence of Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake, Kampar River, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia.

The results showed that Pandanus tectorius was the only one accession that was similar to Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake with identity was 90%, however other parameters value was too small, such as max score=246, total score=283, query cover=39%, and E-value=3e-66. Moreover, the search for Pandanus ITS sequence in GenBank showed there was only one the database that was Pandanus tectorius

property (updated in April 24th, 2016). Further analysis showed that the genetic distance between Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake and P. tectorius was 1.01. Hence there is still a relatively far distance between Pandanus sp and P. tectorius, then the exact species name of Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake still could not be determined.

The general description of the morphological characteristics of Pandan (Pandanus sp) from Kajuik Lake was described as in the following: shrub; spines on the edge of leaves and the main leaf vein of the beneath leaf surface; leaves forming terminal crown; the upper leaf surface was green and the beneath leaf surface was yellowish green; the male flower was yellow and it emerged on the central of leaf crown; and dioecious (Fig. 4).

Figure 4
The morphology of Pandanus sp plant from Kajuik Floodplain Lake, Kampar Floodplain River, Pelalawan District, Riau Province, Indonesia. (a) Pandanus sp plant (bar: 10 cm), (b) male flower, (c) the upper leaf surface, and (d) the beneath leaf surface (bar: 10 cm).

Rotan ( Calamus sp) from Kajuik Lake, Kampar River, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia

The psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence sizing 670 bp of Rotan (Calamus sp) had been obtained (GenBank accession number: KX304063) (Fig. 5) and the alignment analysis using BLASTn program had been performed (Table 2). The results showed that there was a high similarity (99%) between Calamus sp from Kajuik Lake and some accessions of Calamus. Other parameters were also showing the high value. However, the genetic distances between Calamus sp and those accessions were relatively far (Table 3). Consequently, the phylogenetic tree did not show a close relationship between Calamus sp from Kajuik Lake and those Calamus. The examples of a close relationship were between C. viminalis and C. henryanus; C. bonianus and C. karinensis; and C. laccifer and C. basui (Fig. 6).

Figure 5
The psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of Rotan (Calamus sp) from Kajuik Floodplain Lake, Kampar Floodplain River, Pelalawan District, Riau Province, Indonesia.

Figure 6
Dendrogram based on psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of some species in Calamus using UPGMA method.

Table 2
The alignment analysis using BLASTn program of psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of Rotan (Calamus sp) from Kajuik Lake, Kampar River, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia.

Table 3
The genetic distance matrix of Rotan (Calamus) from Kajuik Lake and some accessions in Calamus based on the psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence.

Although the database of psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of genus Calamus had already been available in GenBank sufficiently, i.e 158 database (updated in April 24th, 2016), unfortunately there was no one of the database that was similar to the Calamus sp sequence. Thus, the exact species name of Calamus sp from Kajuik Lake still could not be determined.

The general description of the morphological characteristics of Calamus sp from Kajuik Lake were described as in the following: the young leaves were yellow and then changed into green of the mature leaves; spines or thorns at the base of green stem and at the vein on the beneath leaf surface; 88 small fruits were arranged in bunches; the immature fruits were green and scaly and the mature fruits were brown and scaly; 1.5 cm fruit diameter and 4.5 cm fruit circumference (Fig. 7).

Figure 7
The morphology of Calamus sp tree from Kajuik Floodplain Lake, Kampar Floodplain River, Pelalawan District, Riau Province, Indonesia. (a) Calamus sp with greeny mature leaves, (b) yellow young leaf, (c) spines at the base of stem (→ arrow), (d) the upper leaf surface (bar: 10 cm), (e) the beneath leaf surface with spines on the main leaf vein (→ arrow) (bar: 5 cm), (f) a bunch (bar: 5cm), and (g) fruits in zoom view (bar: 1cm).

Rengas ( Gluta sp) from Kajuik Lake, Kampar River, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia

The length of observed psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of Gluta sp from Kajuik Lake was 639 (GenBank accession number: KX304064) (Fig. 8) and it had been aligned using BLASTn program (Table 4). The results showed that there was none of psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of genus Gluta found in the database. The psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence that was available was of another genus but still in the same family as Gluta sp, namely Anacardiaceae. The highly ident value, that was up to 90%, between Gluta sp and those genus, i.e. Anacardiaceae sp, Fegimanra sp, dan Anacardium excelsum showed that Gluta sp from Kajuik Lake was the members of family Anacardiaceae. However, the genetic distance and the clustering analysis did not show the close relationship between them (Table 5 and Fig. 9). Thus, the exact name of Gluta sp still could not be determined. These results forced us to look for other sequences that can be applicable in the Gluta sp identifying. Until now, the DNA sequences database of genus Gluta in GenBank was limited and only trnL-trnF (3 data) and matK (3 data) sequences that was available.

Figure 8
The psbA-trnH intergenic spacer seqeuence of Gluta sp from Kajuik Floodplain Lake, Kampar Floodplain River, Pelalawan District, Riau Province, Indonesia.

Figure 9
Dendrogram based on psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of some species in Anacardiaceae using UPGMA method.

Table 4
The alignment analysis using BLASTn of psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of Gluta sp from Kajuik Lake, Kampar River, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia.

Table 5
The genetic distance between Rengas (Gluta sp) from Kajuik Lake and some species in Anacardiaceae based on psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence.

The morphological characteristics of Gluta sp from Kajuik Lake were as in the following: the young leaves were light green, purplish-green, or purple; the mature leaves were green of the upper leaf surface and light green on the beneath leaf surface; the leaves arranged spirally in stem; leaves elliptical or ovoid breech, 8-36 cm long, 4-9 cm wide, blunt tip and the surface of the leaves were not hairy; fruit

sized like a chicken eggs or larger and coloured reddish-brown and a diameter of about 6 cm; the tree height of about 15 meters with bright stem color like gray and form the root buttresses (Fig. 10).

Figure 10
The morphology of Gluta sp from Kajuik Floodplain Lake, Kampar Floodplain River, Pelalawan District, Riau Province, Indonesia. (a) Gluta sp tree (bar: 10 cm), (b) the leaves position in stem (bar: 10 cm), (c) the upper leaf surface (bar: 2 cm), (d) the beneath leaf surface (bar: 2 cm), and (e) fruits (bar: 2 cm).

DISCUSSION

Genetics studies, like the study of gene expression analysis and identification of gene function, requires objects, for instance, animals, plants, and microbes which are clearly their identity. Before molecular biology technique developed rapidly like today, species identification was performed based on morphological characteristics. In fact, the species identification morphologically has some limitations, for instances, the identification keys are often only suitable for a certain life stage or gender, some taxa are difficult to be identified morphologically, plasticity, and genetic diversity on morphological characters so that it needs a high expertise in the field of taxonomy [2828 Jarman SN, Elliott NG. DNA evidence for morphological and cryptic Cenozoic speciations in the Anaspididae, `living fossils' from the Triassic. J Evol Biol. 2000; 13: 624-633.], and also the declining of taxonomist number [2424 Ali MA, Gyulai G, Hidve´gi N, Kerti B, Al Hemaid FMA, Pandey AK, Lee J. The changing epitome of species identification - DNA barcoding. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 2014; 21: 204- 231.]. Those are encouraging scientists to develop an alternative identification technique based on short nucleotide sequence of a genome and it is called DNA barcoding technique. The DNA barcoding permits a non taxonomist to identify even though the specimens are incomplete or broken [1313 Hebert PDN, Cywinska A, Ball SL, deWaard JR. Biological identifications through DNA barcodes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 2003; 270: 313-321.,2424 Ali MA, Gyulai G, Hidve´gi N, Kerti B, Al Hemaid FMA, Pandey AK, Lee J. The changing epitome of species identification - DNA barcoding. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 2014; 21: 204- 231.,2929 Stoeckle, M. Taxonomy, DNA, and the bar code of life. BioScience. 2003; 53: 9.].

The first step in plant molecular analysis is extracting the total DNA which is then used at the next step such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the target sequences. The PCR product will be a band in electrophoresis gel. The thick and the single bands are suitable for sequencing requirement [3030 Nugraha, F., Roslim, D. I., Ardilla, Y. P. & Herman. Analisis Sebagian Sekuen Gen Ferritin2 pada Padi (Oryza sativa L.) Indragiri Hilir, Riau. Biosaintifika: Journal of Biology & Biology Education. 2014; 6(2), 70-79.,3131 Roslim DI, Nisa F, Herman. An analysis of partial DNA sequence of Meisa1 gene on sweet and bitter cassavas (Manihot esculenta Crantz.). Biosaintifika: Journal of Biology & Biology Education. 2016; 8(1): 103-110.].

After that, the sequences are analyzed using BLASTn program at http://ncbi.nih.nlm.gov/.

All parameters in BLASTn analysis are important and they determine the level of similarity between organism observed (query) and the available accessions in a public database (subject). The meaning of some parameters are as follows: Max score shows the similarity score between sequences compared; Query cover is a percentage of the analyzed sequence or a percentage of the aligned sequences; E-value (=The Expectation value) is a probability where the lower the E-value, the more significant the score and the alignment; and Ident shows the level or percentage of similarity at the same position of two sequences aligned where the more the ident value, the higher the similarity level [2727 Altschul SF, Madden TL, Schaffer AA, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Miller W, Lipman DJ. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acid Res. 1997; 25: 3389-3402.,3232 Fassler J, Cooper P. BLAST Help. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); 2008.,3333 Madden T. The NCBI Handbook, 2nd edition. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); 2013.].

In this study, the DNA barcoding was used to identify Pandan (Pandanus sp), Rotan (Calamus sp), and Rengas (Gluta sp) from Kajuik Lake, which were previously identified based on morphological caharacters but failed to determine their species name because of the incomplete organs observed. The identification of Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake was performed based on ITS. The ITS region as a nuclear ribosomal DNA region was used as a DNA barcode to complement the identification based on chloroplast genes [3434 Chase MW, Salamin N, Wilkinson M, Dunwell JM, Kesanakurthi RP, Haidar N, Savolainen V. Land plants and DNA barcodes: short-term and long term goals. Philos Trans R Soc B. 2005; 360: 1889-1895.]. Moreover, it had big potential for species identification [2121 Kress WJ, Wurdack KJ, Zimmer EA, Weigt LA, Janzen DH. Use of DNA barcodes to identify flowering plants. PNAS. 2005; 102(23): 8369-8374.] and had already been applied as DNA barcode at interspecies and intraspecies level [3535 Feliner GN, Larena BG, Aguilar JF. Fine scale geographic structure, intra-individual polymorphism and recombination in nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae). Ann Bot. 2004; 93: 189-200.].

Unfortunately, the ITS sequence database for genus Pandanus were still limited, i.e. only one ITS sequence was available. The one ITS sequence was from P. tectorius which was the same thorns as Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake. Yet, BLASTn analysis in this study did not show a close relationship between them and also there was still relatively far distance between both. Therefore, the species name of

Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake still could not be determined. This result also suggested that might be Pandanus sp from Kajuik Lake was a new species which had never been identified and published.

In this study, the Calamus sp and Gluta sp from Kajuik Lake were identified using psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence which was a chloroplast non-coding region and a good DNA barcode in species identification [1818 Pang X, Liu C, Shi L, Liu R, Liang D, Li H, Cherny SS, Chen S. Utility of the trnH-psbA intergenic spacer region and its combinations as plant DNA barcodes: A meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 2012; 7(11): e48833. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048833.
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]. Until now (updated in April 24th, 2016) 158 psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequences of Calamus have already been available in public database but none of them are similar to Calamus sp from

Kajuik Lake. In contrast, the psbA-trnH intergenic spacer sequence of Gluta in public database was not available, but 3 trnL-trnF sequences and 3 matK sequences of Gluta were available in there.

Nursal et al. [3636 Nursal, Suwondo, Sirait IN. Karakteristik komposisi dan stratifikasi vegetasi strata pohon komunitas riparian di kawasan hutan wisata Rimbo Tujuh Danau Kabupaten Kampar Provinsi Riau. Jurnal Biogenesis. 2013; 9(2): 39-46.] reported that one of Anacardiaceae member growing at Rimbo Tujuh Danau forest (which was also part of Kampar River in Riau Province, Indonesia) was Rengas (Gluta renghas). Gluta sp from Kajuik Lake had morphological similarity to that Gluta renghas [3737 Fern K. Useful Tropical Plants Database. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 2004 [updated in 2016-04-01]. Available from: http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?id=Gluta +renghas).
http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?...
]. The database of psbA-trnH

intergenic spacer sequence of Gluta renghas was not available, but the trnL-trnF and rps16 sequences had already been available in public database (updated in April 24th, 2016). Therefore, Gluta sp identification must be tried using both sequences.

This research showed that this study failed to determine the species name of Pandan (Pandanus sp), Rotan (Calamus sp), and Rengas (Gluta sp) from Kajuik Lake and also demonstrated that the identification using DNA barcode, in fact, must be supported by a large number of database.

Furthermore, this research suggested that it might be the plants were the identified plants but their sequences were not available in large quantities or they were new species which were undentified and unpublished in public database. Therefore, further investigation to determine their species name will be performed using other DNA barcodes.

CONCLUSIONS

DNA barcoding had given new hope to identify plants which were indistinguishable morphologically, not intact or broken, and incomplete organs. Unfortunately, the database of DNA sequences of many plants from many regions of the world including Indonesia have not yet been available in GenBank. This research gave a great contribution to enhance the database of plants, such as Pandan (Pandanus sp),

Rotan (Calamus sp), and Rengas (Gluta sp), from Kajuik Lake particularly and Indonesia in general. It was also emphasized that morphological and molecular identifications were complementary each other and play an important role to build the public database. The public database availability in large quantities allows a person who is not a taxonomist to identify an organism easily.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was fully sponsored by a grant from DIPA of Riau University, Indonesia under ‘Penelitian Unggulan Universitas Riau 2016’ on behalf of Dr. Dewi Indriyani Roslim. I would like to thank to Putri Nurkhairani, S.Si. and Siti Khumairoh, S,.Si. for their technical assistance in the laboratory.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    2018

History

  • Received
    03 Feb 2016
  • Accepted
    14 July 2016
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