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23960/jsl1964-75 Jurnal Sylva Lestari P-ISSN: 2339-0913
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php/JHT Full Length Research Article Characterization and Potential of Coelogyne rochussenii Orchids from Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary as Explant Source Pebra Heriansyah*.
Gusti Marlina Islamic University of Kuantan Singingi.
Jl.
Gatot Subroto Km.
Kebun Nenas.
Teluk Kuantan.
Sungai Jering.
Kuantan Singingi, 29566.
Riau.
Indonesia Corresponding author.
E-mail address: hpebra92@gmail.
ARTICLE HISTORY:
Received: 22 September 2020 Peer review completed: 13 October 2020 Received in revised form: 19 October 2020 Accepted: 23 January 2021 KEYWORDS:
Ex-situ conservation Physiologically mature Young pseudobulbs A 2021 The Author.
Published by Department of Forestry.
Faculty of Agriculture.
University of Lampung in collaboration with Indonesia Network for Agroforestry Education (INAFE).
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ABSTRACT
Conservation is an effort to return natural resources to their habitat to restore the ecosystem balance, which can be done in-situ and ex-situ.
Coelogyne rochussenii orchid conservation efforts are essential to maintain its sustainability.
The purpose of this study was to characterize C.
rochussenii orchids from Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary as a source of tissue culture explants to support ex-situ conservation efforts.
Orchid plant samples were obtained through exploration in three locations with an altitude of 92 masl, and then the characterization of leaf morphology, pseudobulbs, roots, and fruit were carried out.
The characterization results showed that the young pseudobulbs, young leaves, healthy roots, and physiologically ripe fruits of the C.
rochussenii orchids obtained could be used as a source of explants to support ex-situ conservation efforts.
Introduction Coelogyne rochussenii is a type of orchid that has decreased in population.
One of the causes of the decline in the population of C.
rochussenii orchids is the reduction in forest area, as happened in Singapore (Tay et al.
Forest area decline has also occurred in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riau.
Suandy et al.
reported degradation of the buffer areas in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary within four years, reaching 82.
One of the impacts of the decrease in both primary and secondary forests is a decrease in the C.
rochussenii orchids population in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Apart from foertermannii.
Eria biflora.
Dipodium sp.
Bulbophyllum spp, and Acriopsis liliifolia.
Puspitaningtyas .
reported that C.
rochussenii orchids are also one of the epiphytic orchids dominating the Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Therefore, conservation efforts towards the preservation of C.
rochussenii orchids are critical.
Conservation is an effort to return natural resources to their habitat to return the ecosystem balance (Crouzeilles et al.
Conservation efforts can be carried out by the level of damage to these resources, either in-situ or ex-situ.
The conservation efforts can be selected according to the needs and damage level (Leclyre et al.
Ex-situ conservation of C.
rochussenii orchid in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary is more suitable than in-situ.
Some obstacles to in-situ conservation efforts are the lack of suitable host trees and the presence of associated mycorrhizal fungi (Yeung 2.
Heriansyah and Marlina .
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 64-75 Based on this, ex-situ conservation efforts for C.
rochussenii orchids are needed, one of which is tissue culture.
Tissue culture is a propagation technique that can be used to overcome a limited number of planting material produced in a short time with good plant quality.
Because aseptic concepts in the process support it, the use of this technique in conservation efforts is possible because it has a vast opportunity to reproduce plants with a low failure rate.
This technique also does not require large amounts of planting material, but the results can be in the millions (Ghosh et al.
Various kinds of orchid species have been successfully propagated through tissue cultures, such as Dendrobium lasianthera (Utami et al.
Phalaenopsis amabilis.
Coelogyne pandurata, and Vanda tricolor.
Phalaenopsis amboinensis (Utami and Hariyanto 2.
, and Epipactis flava orchid (Kunakhonnuruk et al.
Propagation by tissue culture involves several vital processes, including selecting explants to be planted on tissue culture media.
Explants to be planted need to be selected morphologically and environmentally to be acceptable for later culture (Hu et al.
Explants that will be planted in tissue culture propagation can be in the form of root, stem, leaf, or seed tissue.
Various sources of explants are used in orchid propagation.
Explants of orchid seeds play an essential role in orchid plants reproduce in vitro because each seed can grow, germinate, and form a callus.
One can contain millions of pieces of orchid However, the drawback of implanted in vivo growth was highly dependent on symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi because the seeds have no endosperm.
The use of seed explants has been successfully done in Cymbidium aloifolium orchid (Bhowmik and Rahman 2020.
Coelogyne asperata orchid.
Coelogyne celebensis.
Coelogyne foerstermannii.
Coelogyne pandurata.
Coelogyne pulverula.
Coelogyne rumphii.
Coelogyne rochussenii (Puspitaningtyas and Handini Pseudobulb explants as part of orchid organs that have the potential to form embryo somatic, or protocorms like bodies, from protocorm like bodies, will be able to form hundreds of embryo somatically subcultured and form ready to plantlets, such as the use of pseudobulbs in Pleione maculata (Chauhan and Sharma 2.
Malaxis acuminata D.
Don (Deb and Arenmongla 2.
Lycaste aromatica (Graham ex Hoo.
(Mata-Rosas et al.
Cymbidium finlaysonianum (Islam et al.
Coelogyne flaccida Lindl.
(Kaur and Bhutani 2.
, and Dendrobium kingianum Bidwill (Praak and Molas 2.
Planting leaves as the center of photosynthetic activity can form various plant formations, both callus and embryo somatic.
This is because there are thousands of cells capable of differentiating to realize cell totipotency in young leaves, such as the use of leaves in tissue culture of Aerides multiflora orchids (Bhowmik and Rahman 2020.
Dimorphorchis lowii orchids (Jainol and Gansau 2.
Phalaenopsis cv.
Surabaya (Balilashaki et al.
, orchid Dendrobium sp (Goswami et al.
Rhynchostylis retusa (L.
) Blume orchid (Islam et al.
Dendrobium Sonia orchid (Juntada et al.
Phalaenopsis sp.
orchid (Zahara 2.
Apart from leaves, roots also have the potential to be used as explants.
This is because cells in orchid roots have an excellent response to differentiation processes, especially adventitious roots, such as root culture in Cyrtopodium paludicolum orchids (Picolotto et al.
Rhynchostylis retusaAos orchids (Kurniasari et al.
Consequently, the purpose of this study to characterize C.
orchids from Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riau, as a source of tissue culture explants in support of ex-situ conservation efforts.
Heriansyah and Marlina .
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 64-75 Materials and Methods The Coelogyne rochussenii orchid sample used in this study was obtained through exploration in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary at an altitude of 90Ae160 meters above sea level .
(Fig.
The orchids found were subsequently characterized morphologically, including root organs, stems, leaves, and fruit.
The identification of orchids was carried out by reference (Comber 2.
The selected orchid plant samples were then taken for exsitu conservation efforts at the Tissue Culture Laboratory.
Horticulture Main Seed Center.
Agricultural Service.
Riau Province as a living collection.
The explants obtained will be reproduced using seed culture and stored until they are ready to be introduced back into their original habitat.
Fig.
Location of the Coelogyne rochussenii natural orchid inventory in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riau (Source: Google Eart.
Results and Discussion Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary are designated as wildlife reserves based on the Decree of the Minister of Forestry Number 3977/Menhut-Vi/KUH/2014.
It is located in the Kampar Regency and Kuantan Singingi Regency.
Riau Province, with an area of 141,226.
25 ha (BBKSDA Riau 2.
This area is a buffer for forest ecosystems with an average temperature of 18-240AC, a relative humidity of 39-64%, and light of 474AAe716B (Noverita et al.
Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary is a habitat for thousands of plants, including orchids.
In this area, there are reported to be 21 genera and 49 species of orchids.
Among the types of orchids that live in this area, there are 43 species, including epiphytic orchids and three Heriansyah and Marlina .
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 64-75 types of ground orchids (Puspitaningtyas 2.
One of the orchids found in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary is Coelogyne rochussenii (Fig.
The results of the exploration carried out in this study showed that C.
rochussenii orchids were found at all three points with an altitude of 92 masl (Table .
Puspitaningtyas .
also reported that C.
rochussenii could grow at an altitude of 128-160 masl in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Meanwhile.
Isnaini et al.
also reported that C.
rochussenii orchids were found on Abang Island and its surroundings.
Batam.
Riau Islands, at an altitude of 21 masl.
Table 1.
Locations of C.
rochussenii orchid in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riau Description Coordinate Altitude from sea level .
Location 1 S: 00A 18Ao59.
61Ay E: 101A 11Ao03.
75Ay Location 2 S: 00A 18Ao59.
60Ay E: 101A 11Ao03.
74Ay Location 3 S: 00A 18Ao59.
62Ay E 101A 11Ao03.
76Ay Fig.
rochussenii orchids found in .
Location 1, .
Location 2, and .
Location 3 in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Wildlife Sanctuary.
rochussenii orchid is an epiphytic orchid with a sympodial type.
The rhizome spreads and branches out.
The bulb of the C.
rochussenii orchid is oval, the leaves emerge from the tip of the bulb, and each bulb supports two leaves.
The leaves of the C.
rochussenii orchid are oblong with a pointed tip.
According to Hartini and Wawangningrum .
, pendulous inflorescences on C.
rochussenii orchids emerge from the stemAos base and dangle 20-35 flowers bloom together with a yellowish-green color.
The morphology of this orchid plant is characterized by the presence of a rhizome at the root where the pseudobulb grows.
The distance between the rhizomes is 3Ae5 cm between the parts.
This pseudobulb orchid is oval-shaped with two leaves growing every one pseudobulb.
This section is a place to store food reserves for C.
rochussenii orchids during the dry season so that in the dry season, the pseudobulb appears wrinkled.
The leaves have 5Ae7 leaf bones arranged in the middle of the leaf, the length of the plant leaves is 20-18 cm, the leaf width is 10Ae15 cm.
with a wide tarpaulin half apical, narrowing gradually to the base and petiole, 5Ae8 cm long.
This plantAos flower is stunning with a 5.
0Ae5.
2 cm size, characterized by pale greenish-yellow and pale sepals and petals, then white labellum decorated with brown color to the inside.
This adds to the charm of this tiny orchid.
rochussenii orchids bloom all year round, bloom in the morning, and bud in the afternoon.
The flowers have a strong fragrance, with light jasmine and musky scent.
This aroma in its natural habitat will invite insects to pollinate the flowers (Lok et al.
Heriansyah and Marlina .
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 64-75 This plant has dangling flowers and was first named by the Dutch East Indies Governor named J.
Rochussen.
He immortalized his name for the naming of this orchid plant.
This naming also goes hand in hand with the promotion of Johannes Elias Teijsmann .
9Oe1.
and Simon Binnendijik .
1Oe1.
works for the description of the C.
rochussenii plant.
Since then, this orchid has been widely known throughout Asia to Europe because it was widely introduced by the Dutch East Indies (Clayton 2.
The habitat of C.
rochussenii orchids spread from the Himalayas and South China.
Sri Lanka, most of Southeast Asia, and east of the Pacific islands (Comber 2.
Meanwhile, according to Clayton .
rochussenii orchids are spread from Palaan Philippines.
Peninsular Malaysia.
Singapore.
Kalimantan, most of Sumatra.
Java, the northern tip of Sulawesi, and Maluku, to southern Thailand.
Coelogyne rochussenii belongs to the subfamily Epidendroideae, species Coelogyneae, and subspecies Coelogyninae, a genus Dendrochilum.
Pholidota, and Pleione, which is sometimes difficult to distinguish from Coelogyne species when present in a vegetative state.
Coelogyne has also been further divided into 22 sections (Lok et al.
The C.
rochusseni orchid has a wide distribution area, making its population abundant in However, in reality, human activities and various environmental impacts are increasingly pressing this plantAos population.
Chong et al.
reported that C.
rochussenii is now declared extinct nationally.
According to herbarium records.
rochussenii was only collected four times in Singapore and all in the late 1890s, with the last collection in 1894.
The C.
rochussenii orchid in Malaysia is reported to have become extinct locally.
This is due to this orchidAos selling price resulting in excessive plundering of its habitat (Majit et al.
Description of C.
rochussenii in Location 1 The C.
rochussenii orchids were found in Location 1 with an altitude of 92 masl, as many as eight plants.
The orchids found in Location 1 were at a host height of 8 m.
As an ex-situ conservation effort for C.
rochussenii orchids from this area, it is known that one physiologically ripe fruit, two young pseudobulbs, four young leaves, and healthy roots have the potential to be used as a source of tissue culture explants (Table .
Table 2.
Morphological characteristics of C.
rochussenii orchid found in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riau Character Host height .
Number of old leaves Number of young leaves Number of leaves disturbed .
The number of old pseudobulbs Number of young pseudobulbs The number of pseudobulbs is disturbed .
Number of fruit Root state Location 1 Location 2 Location 3 Not Disturbed Not Disturbed Not Disturbed Heriansyah and Marlina .
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 64-75 Observation at Location 1 found one remaining orchid with three stalks of fruit had fallen The orchids found at this location have good morphological characteristics, including no pest disturbance on the fruit skin, yellowish-green rind due to the ripening process.
If allowed to age, this ripe orchid will break and release its small seeds flying down.
Some fall onto other branches carried away by the wind.
However, seeds cannot germinate independently but must have a symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi because these seeds do not only contain embryos, and there is no endosperm as food reserves.
This makes it challenging to increase the number of orchid populations in the field (Wu et al.
The level of fruit development indicated as physiologically ripe can be seen from the yellow seeds of the C.
rochussenii orchid.
However, morphologically the fruit is still green with a slightly yellow tinge on the edges and corners (Fig.
The observed characteristics indicate that the C.
rochussenii orchid fruit has the potential to be used as a source of explants in tissue culture.
Suriya et al.
stated that if placed on the right media, physiologically ripe orchid seeds would experience a good germination process.
One of the things that need to be considered in the use of tissue culture explants in the form of seeds is the level of maturity (Wu et al.
However, in addition to the level of seed maturity, the parent plantAos physiological and morphological conditions also determine the success rate of orchid tissue culture (Mose et al.
According to Deb and Temjensangba .
, tissue culture of the Malaxis khasiana Soland orchid using an explant source in the form of seeds showed a success rate of up to 75% after 107 days of culture.
The seeds of C.
rochussenii are the most significant opportunity for orchid conservation activities in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary areas ex-situ.
In one orchid, it stores millions of embryos that we can develop into complete plants.
Various obstacles in in-situ conservation can be overcome by using seed tissue culture techniques.
These orchid seeds can also be used as stored genetic material, which can be reused at any time.
Ex-situ conservation stages include surveying the potential explants in the field, explant isolation, aseptic culture, and The next activity is the reintroduction of orchids to the area (Puspitaningtyas and Handini 2.
Fig.
Orchid fruit that will be used as explants and .
seeds of C.
Rochussenii orchid found in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riau.
Description of C.
rochussenii in Location 2 The C.
rochussenii orchids found in Location 2 live epiphytes with a host height of 10 Based on the observations, it was indicated that the orchid was still in the vegetative phase because there were no signs of remaining flowering, such as stalks and traces of plant knobs.
Heriansyah and Marlina .
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 64-75 Orchids found in Location 2 also can be used as a source of explants in ex-situ conservation efforts, namely four young pseudobulbs, eight young leaves, and healthy roots (Table .
The C.
rochussenii orchid habitat in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary is disturbed because it is prone to disturbance.
The presence of its hosts is scattered on the edge of the area directly adjacent to community activities.
This can be seen from the difficulty of finding the orchid host of C.
The condition is in line with the research results by Destri et al.
rochussenii habitat conditions.
The Bangka Belitung Islands are also experiencing disturbances so that this orchid is only found between the rocks.
This certainly indicates a disturbance to the plant host.
The results of the C.
rochussenii plant observations at Location 2 were fairly good because the host plant had a thick bark that allowed the plant roots to take nutrients from the residue of stem bark weathering.
Besides, host plant litter that falls and is left around plant roots after rotting can also increase nutrient availability in orchid plants.
Natural obstacles are often encountered in the field of rotting wooden branches, which then fall and hit the orchids so that they fall to the This condition is not under their habitat.
hence it will result in the death of the orchid.
general, the orchid hosts of the Coelogyne species are Pandanus sarasinorum.
Ficus sp.
Dracaena nagustifolia, and Magnolia candoleii (Ramadanil 2.
Pseudobulbs are a potential source of explants to be grown on tissue culture media.
However, the success rate of pseudobulbs as a source of explants was influenced by age.
Young pseudobulb age and smaller explant size correlate with the increasing success rate of tissue culture (Anuprabha et al.
Bhowmik and Rahman 2020.
Basker and Bai .
stated that tissue culture of the Coelogyne stricta orchid using an explant source in the form of pseudobulbs was able to produce shoot length growth of 4.
40 cm, number of shoots reaching 66, number of roots 7, and root length 54 cm after 90 days after planting.
Description of C.
rochussenii in Location 3 The C.
rochussenii orchid found in Location 3 was found at a host height of 12.
5 meters.
The results showed that the orchids in Location 3 were more mature than those found in Location 1 and Location 2.
This is indicated by the former flowering found in the form of dried flower stalks at the pseudobulb base.
The orchid plant organs in Location 3 that can be used as a source of explants in ex-situ conservation efforts are a young pseudobulb, two young leaves, and healthy roots (Table .
The C.
rochussenii orchidAos morphological appearance at Location 3 shows that the plant has completed the flowering and fertilization process so that the plantAos physical condition looks a little wrinkled in its pseudobulb.
This happens because the plantAos generative process leaves only a few nutrients for the plant.
Another condition that occurs is that there is a disturbance in the This is because the plantAos location is not far from the branching, so there is a lot of insect activity so that some old leaves are found disturbed.
The young leavesAo condition is not disturbed because they are in the inner grove.
Young leaves can be used as a source of explants because the leaf cells are still meristematic, making it possible to develop into complete plants by initiating the formation of protocorm-like bodies (Shen et al.
According to Budisantoso et al.
using explants in the form of leaves in the Vanda sp orchid tissue culture could produce callus up to 83% after 14 days after culture.
Heriansyah and Marlina .
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 64-75 Apart from fruit, young pseudobulbs, and young leaves, roots can be used as a source of explants in tissue culture.
The C.
rochussenii orchid found in the three research locations in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riau, has the potential to be used as a source of explants because the roots are still healthy (Table .
The use of root explants in the Cattleya hybrid orchid tissue culture could produce somatic embryos with a height of 3 cm after eight weeks after culture (Sharma 2.
However, although they were able to show success in developing into individual candidate plants, root explants were known to have a lower success rate than other explant sources in in-vitro orchid propagation.
The main obstacle to propagating orchids through tissue culture with a source of explants in the form of roots is still high in contamination (Pindel and Pindel 2.
This is because the root organs contain many contaminants that are difficult to overcome, even with sterilization (Gangrong 2.
Based on this, a particular treatment is needed to overcome the contamination of root explants in tissue culture.
However, according to Chugh et .
, root meristems in orchids have great potential in forming protocorm-like bodies.
The success of ex-situ conservation through tissue culture is strongly influenced by the explantsAo quality isolated from their natural habitat.
Dwiyani .
stated that if fruit explants are used, it is necessary to pay attention to fruit maturity, both morphologically and physiologically.
When using vegetative organs such as roots, rhizomes, pseudobulbs, and leaves, it is necessary to pay attention to these organsAo health, free from pathogens that interfere and become contaminants when cultured.
The level of maturity of cells in these organs will also affect the success in conducting tissue culture.
The younger a cell in an organ, the faster the growth of the explants will The explantsAo size also determines the cultureAos success and its formation that will be done after initiation on tissue culture media, such as Murashige and Scoog.
Knudson C.
Vacin and Went, and other media.
The last thing to pay attention to is the explant storage technique before it reaches the laboratory and the water content needs to be considered so that the plants are not damaged (Bhowmik and Rahman 2020.
Conclusions The Coelogyne rochussenii De Vriese orchid found in three locations in Bukit Rimbang and Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary has the potential to be a source of explants in ex-situ conservation Four kinds of explants can be used in the conservation of C.
rochussenii orchids, namely one physiologically ripe fruit, seven young pseudobulbs, fourteen young leaves, and healthy roots.
Acknowledgments The authors thank the Deputy for Strengthening Research and Development Ministry of Research and Technology/National Research and Innovation Agency (RISTEK-BRIN), who has funded research activities through the Beginner Lecturer Research (PDP) scheme for funding in The authors also appreciate the Center for Natural Resources Conservation (BBKSDA), which has supported and granted permission to implement this research.
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