A Report of Five Unrecorded Fungal Species of Korea

Geum Ran  Ahn1   Bo Young  Kim1    Geun Sick  Lee1   Min Woo Hyun3   Chan Jung  Lee3   Seong Hwan  Kim12,*   

1Department of Microbiology, Dankook University
2Institute of Biodiverstiy, Dankook University
3Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science

Abstract

During a survey of the activities of fungi in steamed sweet potato, stored garlic, agricultural by-products for mushroom cultivation media, and pinewood chips from a pinewood nematode-infected tree, numerous fungal samples were isolated and identified. This study identified five species that have not been previously reported in Korea, namely Geomyces pannorum, Neopestalotiopsis javaensis, Penicillium allii, Penicillium chermesinum, and Ophiognomonia setacea. For all identified species, the cultural features of colonies formed on growth media, their morphological characteristics observed by a light microscope, and their molecular phylogenetic relationships based on nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer rDNA region or calmodulin gene were described.

Acknowledgements

This work was carried out with the support of the Pro- ject on Survey and Discovery of Indigenous Species of Korea funded by NIBR of Ministry of Environment (MOE) and Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Sci- ence & Technology Development (PJ011125062016), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

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