Morphological variations of superior sugarcane cultivars (Saccharum officinarum) from Lampung, Indonesia

Abstract. Windiyani IP, Mahfut, Purnomo, Daryono BS. 2022. Morphological variations of superior sugarcane cultivars (Saccharum officinarum) from Lampung, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 4110-4117. Sugarcane officinarum L.) is the main crop for producing sugar and various industries. The need continuously increasing as population grows diverse demands industrial needs. One efforts to increase production by developing high-yielding varieties. In doing so, performing morphological characterization necessary so that can be identified. This study aimed determine phenetic relationships crosses collections PT. Gunung Madu Plantation in observation 15 was carried out on 37 characters covering leaves, leaf midrib, internodes, stems, eyes, agronomical aspects. dendrogram built using UPGMA cluster Gower’s General Similarity Coefficient algorithm, while PCA analysis performed Euclidean Distance algorithm MVSP v.3.1 software. results showed there were fairly high among observed. GMP (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) not one due differences between each parent. principal component total variation axis I contributed 27.62% with an eigenvalue 0.25, II 17.9% 0.16. information about this suggests taxonomic evidence are very good identifying analyzing local cultivar knowing closeness their kinship relationships.