A Note on a Dark Septate Endophyte Phialocephala piceaeIsolated from Needle Leaves of Thuja koraiensis in Korea

Dong-Yeo  Kim1   Ju-Kyeong Eo1   Hyeok  Park1   Ahn-Heum  Eom1,*   

1Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education

Abstract

A dark septate endophytic fungal strain 13E043 was isolated from the needle leaves of Thuja koraiensis from a forest in Korea. Morphological characteristics of conidia and phialids. Along with a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA, the isolate was identified as Phialocephala piceae (also known as Phaeomollisia piceae). This is the first report of a dark septate endophyte isolated from the foliage of conifer trees in Korea.

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