Morphological and Multigene Sequence Characteristics of Talaromyces variabilis Isolated from Soil in Korea

Mahesh Adhikari1   Sang Woo Kim1   Hyang Burm Lee2   Youn Su Lee1,*   

1Division of Biological Resource Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
2Division of Food Technology, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea

Abstract

In 2017, Talaromyces variabilis was isolated during a survey of fungal diversity in field soils in Korea. This isolate was described based on its morphological and molecular characteristics and it was identified molecularly using the partial 18S-ITS1-5.8S-ITS2-28S rDNA region and calmodulin (CaM)-encoding gene sequence data. Thus, this study reported morphological and multigene sequence characterization of T. variabilis.

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Fig. 1. Morphological characteristics of KNU17-154 grown on potato dextrose agar (PDA) at 25℃ for 7 days. Obverse colony from left to right (A-E) and reverse colony from left to right (F-J) grown on PDA, oatmeal agar (OMA), Czapek yeast extract agar (CYEA), yeast extract sucrose agar (YESA), and malt extract agar (MEA). Conidiophores and conidia produced on PDA (K and L) taken using a simple and scanning electronic microscope. Phialides observed in scanning electronic microscope (M) and scanning electronic microscope of conidia (N) produced on PDA.