Jong-Chul Lee, Hyeok Park, and Ahn-Heum Eom *
Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea
Correspondence to eomah@knue.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December, 2020, 48(4):415-421.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.20200041
Accepted: December 09, 2020; Revised: November 28, 2020; Received: November 06, 2020
Published: December, 2020.
© 2020 THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY.
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We isolated endophytic fungi from the leaves of woody plants inhabiting the Ulleungdo Island and Yeosu in South Korea. The fungal strains were identified based on their morphological characteristics in conjunction with phylogenetic analysis, which was performed using sequences of the internal transcribed spacer, large subunit rDNA, and β-tubulin DNA. We confirmed the presence of Neofusicoccum mangiferae and Thyronectria cucurbitula, two endophytic fungal species that had not been previously recorded in Korea. In this report, we describe the morphological characteristics of these fungal strains and results of the DNA-based phylogenetic analysis.
Endophytes, Neofusicoccum mangiferae, Thyronectria cucurbitula, Ulleungdo, Yeosu