Two Unreported Glomeromycota Fungi Isolated from Rhizospheres of Smilax china

Hyeok Park1   Kang-Hyeon Ka2   Ahn-Heum Eom1,*   

1Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea
2Special Forest Products Division, National Institute of Forest Science, Suwon 16631, Korea

Abstract

We isolated fungal spores belonging to the phylum Glomeromycota from the rhizospheres of Smilax china, cultured in a greenhouse. We identified the isolated spores using sequence analysis of 18S partial rDNA region, internal transcribed spacer and 28S rDNA regions. We confirmed 2 unreported spores of Glomeromycota fungal species, Diversispora eburnea and Paraglomus laccatum. Here, we described the morphological characteristics and results of phylogenetic analysis of the confirmed species.

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Spores of (A), in polyvinyl alcohol-lactic acid-glycerol (PVLG)(B), in Melzer’s reagent(C). Spores of (D), in PVLG(E), in Melzer’s reagent(F). (scale bars: A, D = 100μm; B, C, E, F = 20μm).