A Report of Eighteen Unrecorded Fungal Species in Korea

Geum Ran  Ahn1   Min Ah  Choi1   Ji Eun  Kim1   Eun Ji  Seo1   Jun Young  Kim1   Seong Hwan  Kim1,2,*   

1Department of Microbiology, Dankook University
2Institute of Biodiverstiy, Dankook University

Abstract

During a survey of culturable fungi in Korea, 18 unrecorded fungal species were isolated and identified from the indoor air of mushroom cultivation houses, the materials used for preparation of mushroom cultivation media, wild plants, and funitures. This study reports the descriptions of the 18 unrecorded fungal species: Aspergillus creber, Ceratocystis paradoxa, Colletotrichum spaethianum, Coniochaeta velutina, Coprinellus xanthothrix, Epicoccum sorghinum, Leptosphaeria rubefaciens, Myrothecium gramineum, Paraconiothyrium fuckelii, Penicillium erubescens, Penicillium melinii, Penicillium pulvillorum, Penicillium sabulosum, Penicillium turbatum, Pestalotiopsis portugalica, Pilidiella castaneicola, Rachicladosporium pini, and Umbelopsis nana. For all the identified species, the morphological characteristics including the features of colony formed on media, images of light microscopy, and molecular phylogenetic relationships based on nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer ribosomal DNA (ITS rDNA), 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, β-tubulin gene, calmodulin gene, and translation elongation factor gene were described.

Acknowledgements

This work was carried out with the support of National Institute of Biological Resource (NIBR), Dankook University ChemBio Specialization for Creative Korea -II, the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016M3A7B4909823) and Korea Ministry of Environment as “The Environmental Health Action Program” (2016001360009).

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