Hee-Wan Kang
1Graduate School of Bio.&Information Technology, Hankyong National University, Ansung 456-749, Korea
2Institute of Genetic engineering, Hankyong National University, Ansung 456-749, Korea
3JK BioTech, Ltd. Hankyong National University, Ansung 456-749, Korea
Correspondence to kanghw2@hknu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) June 30, 2012, 40(2):78-85.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2012.40.2.78
(Received June 4, 2012. Revised June 12, 2012. Accepted June 18, 2012)
Published: June 30, 2012.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
URP primers that were derived from repetitive DNA sequence of rice weedy rice have been applied for producing PCR polymorphisms in different fungal species. URP-PCR protocol employed stringent PCR with high annealing temperature over 55 oC throughout the thermo-cycling reaction, giving high reproducibility. Under the PCR condition, Each single URP primer produced characteristic fingerprints from diverse genomes of different fungal species, indicating its universal applicability. URP-PCR has been accessed for applicability to various fungal species with 33 genus, 142 species and 1,489 isolates. Numerous related papers have demonstrated that URP-PCR profiles of fungal species are very useful for identifying fungal species at intra and inter species levels. The results were reviewed in this paper.
Fungal species, Genetic diversity, URP-PCR