Analysis of Morphological and Genetic Relationships amomg Isolates of the Artificially Cultivated Mushroom, Hypsizygus marmoreus

Min-Kyung Kim1   

1Korea National College of Agriculture & Fisheries, Jeonju 54874 Korea

Abstract

To investigate the morphological characteristics and genetic relationships among isolate of the artificially cultivated mushroom Hypsizygus marmoreus, 111 isolates were collected from Korea and other countries. Random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) and ITS rDNA sequencing were used to confirm the genetic relationships among the collected H. marmoreus isolates. As a result of RAPD analysis using universal rice primer (URP)-PCR, all isolates of H. marmoreus clustered into three groups, which showed high sequence similarity (>90%). In addition, isolates with morphological and geographical differences formed independent clusters. However, it was impossible to distinguish between brown and white strains. Sixteen strains showing morphological and geographic differences were selected, and their ITS region sequences (640 bp) were aligned and compared. The ITS region sequences belonging to these isolates showed 94.8–99.1% similarities to those of publicly available H. marmoreus strains in GenBank. In conclusion, there were differences among isolates in terms of morphology and the area from which they were collected, but all the isolates used in the experiment were classified as H. marmoreus.

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Fig. 1. Dendrogram of strains and related species based on band similarity. The scale on the bottom indicates the simple matching similarity coefficients obtained from two URP (Universal Rice Primer) - PCR data (URP 1F and 2F) in the cluster analysis.