Two Unrecorded Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Funaria hygrometrica in Korea

Hyun-Sook Choi¹ Hyeok Park¹ Ahn-Heum Eom^1,*

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

Abstract

In the present study, we isolated endophytic fungal strains from the rhizoids of the moss Funaria hygrometrica . The isolated strains were identified based on morphological characteristics and analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and large subunit (LSU) rDNA sequence regions. Consequently, we confirmed the presence of two endophytic fungal species, Curvularia protuberata and Didymella anserina, which have not been reported in Korea previously. Here, we describe the morphological characteristics and molecular analysis results of these fungal species.

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Fig. 1. Colonies of strain 18S001 () grown for 7 days on PDA (A) and MEA (B), C, conidia; D&E, colonies of strain 18S002 () grown for 7 days on PDA (D) and MEA (E); F, conidia. (scale bars = 10 μm). PDA, potato dextrose agar; MEA, malt extract agar.