A New Record on Umbelopsis vinacea and Mucor hiemalis f. corticola Isolated from Korea

Kallol Das¹ Ki-Hun Ha¹ Sang-Jae Suh^1,2 Seung-Yeol Lee^1,2,* Hee-Young Jung^1,2

¹School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea
²Institute of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea

Abstract

In the screening of fungal diversity, two strains were collected from the soil of Yeongcheon and dissected guts from the bodies of Chinese rice grasshopper (Oxya chinensis), Chinese grasshopper (Acrida cinerea), and Far eastern devil grasshopper (Oedaleus infernalis) from Daejeon in Korea. They were identified as Umbelopsis vinacea (KNU-YC-1801B) and Mucor hiemalis f. corticola (KNU-20F7, KNU-20F8, KNU-20F9). Multigene phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions, and large subunit (LSU) sequence data confirmed two unreported taxa along with their morphology. The results of molecular phylogeny firmly supported the detailed description and illustration for each taxon. As far as we know, both Umbelopsis vinacea and Mucor hiemalis f. corticola are the first reported taxa in Korea.

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Fig. 1. Cultural and morphological characteristics of vinacea KNU-YC-1801B. Colony on potato dextrose agar (A), malt extract agar (B), and corn meal agar (C), correspondingly following 14 days at 25℃; sporangiophores showing branching type (D-F); chlamydospores (G-I); sporangia (J, K); sporangiospores (L). Scale bars: D-L=5 μm.