Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
Young-Hyun You 1,2, Jong Myong Park 1,3, Kyung-Sook Han 2, Jong-Han Park 2 and Jong-Guk Kim 1*
1School of Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea
2Horticultural & Herbal Crop Environment Division, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA, Wanju 565-852, Korea
3LOTTE R&D Center, Seoul 150-096, Korea
Correspondence to kimjg@knu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) June, 2015, 43(2):92-98.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2015.43.2.92
Received: June 11, 2015; Revised: June 17, 2015; Accepted: June 17, 2015
Published: June, 2015.
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Hydrocharis dubia Backer and Salvinia natans All. were sampled from the Junam and Dongpan reservoirs, representative freshwater wetlands of Korea. A total of 19 endophytic fungal strains were isolated from hydrophytes native to the Junam wetlands and 5 strains were isolated from the Dongpan wetlands. Depending on phylogenetic analysis based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, strains from Junam belonged to 11 genera and from Dongpan belonged to 5 genera. Fusarium, Phoma and Talaromyces were commonly distributed genera from two wetlands. The fungal diversity index showed clear differences between each wetlands or each host hydrophyte. Above all, the highest diversity value was observed from Salvinia natans All., which have been reported as promising biological resources as eutrophication controller in environmental ecology.
Diversity index, Endophytic fungi, Freshwater wetland, Hydrophyte