Penicillifer diparietisporus: A New Record from Field Soil in Korea

Kallol Das1   Chang-Gi Back2   Seung-Yeol Lee1   Hee-Young Jung*1,*   

1School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea
2Horticultural and Herbal Crop Environment Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Wanju 55365, Korea

Abstract

A fungus was isolated from field soil collected from Daegu, Korea. The colony of the isolated fungus showed short, branched, and light to dark yellow pigments with hyaline, yellowish red to orange brown aerial mycelia. In addition, the fungus produced solitary to aggregated perithecia, ovoid to pyriform, short neck, and asci as well as biseriately arranged ascospores. Phylogenetic analysis using the internal transcribed spacer region and translation elongation factor 1-α sequences and morphological characteristics identified the isolated fungus as Penicillifer diparietisporus, which belongs to the family Nectriaceae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Penicillifer diparietisporus in Korea.

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Fig. 1. Cultural characteristics of KNU16-010. A, B, Front and reverse sides of the colony on potato dextrose agar; C, D, Front and reverse sides of the oatmeal agar; E, F, Front and reverse sides of the malt extract agar.