Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
Kallol Das 1, Chang-Gi Back 2, Seung-Yeol Lee 1, Hee-Young Jung 1*
1School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University,
Daegu 41566, Korea
2Horticultural and Herbal Crop Environment Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal
Science, Wanju 55365, Korea
Correspondence to heeyoung@knu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) September, 2018, 46(3):227-233.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.20180029
Accepted: August 18, 2018; Revised: August 18, 2018; Received: August 11, 2018
Published: September, 2018.
© 2018 THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY.
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A fungus was isolated from field soil collected from Daegu, Korea. The colony of the isolated fungus showed short, branched, and light to dark yellow pigments with hyaline, yellowish red to orange brown aerial mycelia. In addition, the fungus produced solitary to aggregated perithecia, ovoid to pyriform, short neck, and asci as well as biseriately arranged ascospores. Phylogenetic analysis using the internal transcribed spacer region and translation elongation factor 1-α sequences and morphological characteristics identified the isolated fungus as Penicillifer diparietisporus, which belongs to the family Nectriaceae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Penicillifer diparietisporus in Korea.
Nectriaceae, Penicillifer diparietisporus, Soil fungi