Min Woo Hyun, Dong Yeon Suh, Yeo Hong Yun and Seong Hwan Kim*
Department of Microbiology and Institue of Basic Sciences, Dankook University, Cheonan, Chungnam 330-714, Korea
Correspondence to piceae@naver.com
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December 31, 2008, 36(2):123-129.
https://doi.org/10.4489/kjm.2008.36.2.123
(Received November 26, 2008. Accepted December 24, 2008)
Published: December 31, 2008.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
One of the sapstain fungal species isolated from the stained sapwood of a Japanese black pine in Korea was characterized. The fungal species is tolerant to cycloheximide and has Petosum-like synnema and Sporothrix type synanamorph which are found in the anamorphs of the Ophiostoma piceae complex group. But the species could not form perithecia on MEA. Based on cultural and morphological properties and analysis of the β-tubulin gene sequence, the fungal species was identified as Ophiostoma quercus. Here, we report mycological characteristics of the anamorphic stage of Ophiostoma quercus isolated in Korea.
Japanese Black Pine, Ophiostoma piceae complex, O. quercus, β-tubulin gene