“…Pokem have been cultivated by local communities in Papua and used in a variety of processed foodstuffs (Suharno et al, 2015a;2015b). The distribution of pokem in the world is extremely wide (Li and Brutnell 2011;Suharno et al, 2015a), such as China, India, Japan, Korea, Uni Soviet, Africa, Europe, and South of Asia (Ji et al, 2010), including in some parts of America, Eurasia, and Australia (Lin et al, 2012). In addition to high nutritional value, S. italica can be used as a model in the process of domestication, the physiological processes associated with photosynthesis of C4, the study of abiotic stress tolerance and the development of genomic sources, as well as models in plant growth (Suharno et al, 2015a).…”