Undescribed Fungal Species of Eupenicillium, Mortierella, and Trichoderma Isolated in the Vicinity of Demilitarized Zone in Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Geum Ran Ahn1   Ji Eun Kim1   Ji Eun Yun Seok Oh1   Kyoung Min Lee1   Hyeop Jin1   Min Uk Kim1   Jun Young Kim1   Seong Hwan  Kim1,2   

1Department of Microbiology, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Korea
2Institute of Biodiverstiy, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Korea

Abstract

As an effort to explore fungal diversity, fungal survey was undertaken in 2017 in the vicinity of demilitarized zone (DMZ) located in Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. For the survey, wild plants and soils were sampled and subjected to fungal isolation. A total of 18 genera and 23 species including five unrecorded fungal species, Mortierella sclerotiella, M. sossauensis, M. verticillate, Eupenicillium saturniforme, and Trichoderma hispanicum, were obtained from the survey. This study described their morphological characteristics including colony features formed on media, light microscopic images and molecular characteristics of nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, 18S and 28S rDNA, β-tubulin gene, calmodulin, and translation elongation factor 1α (tef1α) nDNA genes.

Acknowledgements

This work was carried out with the support of National Institute of Biological Resource (NIBR), Golden Seed Project (Center for Horticultural Seed Development, No.213007-05-2-WTH32), Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA), Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF), Rural Development Administration (RDA) and National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science (PJ01328102), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

Figures & Tables

Fig. 1. Photos of soil and plant sources sampled in this study for the isolation of fungi in the vicinity of DMZ in Yeoncheon-gun. A row, Sampled in Majeon-ri; B row, Sampled in Hwangjin-ri; A1, ; A2, ; A3, ; A4, ; A5, var. ; A6, Soil; B1, ; B2, a; B3, ; B4, ; B5, ; B6, ; B7, Soil; Red arrow, soil sampling site and disease symptom like part in the sampled plants.