Jong-Kun Kim 2,3 and Hee-Wan Kang
1Graduate School of Biotechnology and Information Technology, Hankyong National University, Ansung 456-749, Korea
2JK BioTech Co Ltd, Gyonggi, Ansung 456-747, Korea
3Institute of Genetic engineering, Hankyong National University, Ansung 456-749, Korea
Correspondence to kanghw2@hknu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December 1, 2011, 39(3):180-184.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2010.39.3.180
(Received 16, November 2011., Accepted 21, November 2011)
Published: December 1, 2011.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
This study was carried out to identify the genetic characteristics among isolates of Paecilomyces spp.and Cordyceps spp. by URP-PCR analysis. Twenty URP (universal rice primer) primers of 20 mer which were designed from repetitive sequence of rice, were used for producing PCR DNA fingerprints of the mushrooms. Of them, 5 URP primers, URP2F, URP2R, URP9F, URP4R, and URP17R amplified genomic DNA of the mushrooms with polymorphic PCR patterns. On isolates of Cordyceps militaris, primers URP1F, URP2R, URP6R and URP17R produced PCR polymorphic bands of 4 types. Isolates of Cordypces sp. that are isolated from different area of Korea were identical to isolate of C. militaris, while other species of Cordypces were different to the PCR profiles. However, the URP primers did not identify the polymorphism of PCR profile on isolates of P. japonica.
Cordyceps spp., Paecilomyces spp., Genetic diversity, URP-PCR