New Records of Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Leaves of Abies koreana and Taxus cuspidata in Korea

Hyeok Park   Dong-Yeo Kim   Sae-Rom Kim   Ahn-Heum Eom**   

1Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea

Abstract

We isolated endophytic fungi from the coniferous leaves of Abies koreana and Taxus cuspidata inhabiting Mt. Hallasan, Korea. The isolated fungal strains were identified based on a phylogenetic analysis using nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region, large subunit region of ribosomal DNA, and translation elongation factor region. Results confirmed four prevously unreported endophytic fungi in Korea: Lachnellula hyalina, Ochrocladosporium elatum, Phacidium lacerum, and Phyllosticta cussoniae. In this report, we describe the morphological characteristics of these fungi and the results of the phylogenetic analysis.

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Fig. 1. Colonies of strain 16H321 () grown for 7 days on potato dextrose agar (PDA) (A) and malt extract agar (MEA) (E), conidia (I). Colonies of strain 17C006 () grown for 7 days on PDA (B) and MEA (F), conidiophore (J). Colonies of strain 17C009 () grown for 7 days on PDA (C) and MEA (G), conidia (K). Colonies of strain 16H339 () grown for 7 days on PDA (D) and MEA (H), conidia (L) (scale bars = 10 μm).