Two Unrecorded Enophytic Fungi Isolated from Root of Ligusticum chuanxiong in Korea:SPithomyces chartarum and Plectosphaerella niemeijerarum

Hyeok Park¹ Chung Ryul Jung² Ahn-Heum Eom^1,*

¹Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea
²Forest Medicinal Resources Research Center, National Institute of Forest Science, Yeongju 36040, Korea

Abstract

Endophytic fungal strains were isolated from the sterilized roots of a medicinal plant,Ligusticum chuanxiong and identified based on morphological characteristics and molecular analysis of internal transcribed spacer, large subunit rDNA, and beta-tubulin DNA regions. Our results confirmed the presence of SPithomyces chartarum and Plectosphaerella niemeijerarum in the fungal strains. To the best of our knowledge, the fungal strains have not been reported in Korea. In this report, we describe morphological characteristics and phylogenetic trees of these endophytic fungal strains.

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Fig. 1. Colonies of strain 17E033 () grown for 7 days on potato dextrose agar (PDA) (A, E) and malt extract agar (MEA) (B, F) and conidia (I, J). Colonies of strain 17E028() grown for 7 days on PDA (C, G) and MEA (D, H) and conidia (K, L).(scale bars: I, J=20 μm, K, L=10 μm).