Abstract
A survey to assess the diversity of wound-associated Ophiostomatales and Microascales, the
so-called ophiostomatoid fungi, on Korean native trees, was undertaken in 2017. Wounds were
artificially created, and a fungus resembling a species of Sporendocladia was consistently
isolated from the exposed cambium and inner bark of artificially induced wounds on Quercus
variabilis. Morphological examination and DNA sequence comparisons based on the internal
transcribed spacer (ITS) and 5.8S regions of the rDNA confirmed the identity of the fungus as
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a project, the development of the effective control for oak wilt diseases and the research on applications of the damaged trees (Project No. FE0700-2017-2017), from the National Institute of Forest Science, Republic of Korea.