Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Three Novel Endophytic Fungal Species Isolated from Roots of Medicinal Crops in Korea

1Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173 Korea
2Forest Medicinal Resources Research Center, National Institute of Forest Science, Yeongju 36040 Korea

Correspondence to eomah@knue.ac.kr

Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) June, 2019, 47(2):113-20.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.20190014
Accepted: June 17, 2019; Revised: June 15, 2019; Received: June 3, 2019
Published: June, 2019.
© 2019 THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY.
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ABSTRACT

We isolated endophytic fungal strains from the roots of three medicinal crops, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Angelica gigas, and Cnidium officinale, cultivated at Yeongju, Korea. The fungal strains were identified based on their morphological characteristics and molecular analyses of their internal transcribed spacer, large subunit rDNA, and beta-tubulin regions. Thereby, we identified three previously unrecorded endophytic fungal species, Dactylonectria pauciseptata, Rhizopycnis vagum, and Sistotrema sernanderi, in Korea. In this report, we describe the morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of these three fungal species.

Keywords

Dactylonectria pauciseptata, Endophytic fungi, Medicinal crops, Rhizopycnis vagum, Sistotrema sernanderi

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