A New Record of Pseudeurotium bakeri from Crop Field Soil in Korea

Mahesh Adhikari1   Sangwoo Kim1   Dil Raj Yadav1   Yong Hyun Um1   Hyung Seung Kim1   Hyang Burm Lee2   Youn Su Lee1,*   

Abstract

Pseudeurotium bakeri KNU14-21 isolated from crop field soil is a previously unreported fungal species in Korea. This fungal species was identified through morphological and molecular characteristics. Based on the shape and size of conidia and conidiophores as well as the internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA, the isolate was confirmed to be Pseudeurotium bakeri. This species has not been previously reported from Korea, and this is the first report of its incidence in Korea.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), funded by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) of the Republic of Korea for the project on survey and discovery of indigenous fungal species.

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