Kallol Das 1, Jae-Ho Ban 1,2, So-Young Choi 1, Seung-Yeol Lee 1,3,*, and Hee-Young Jung 1,3
1College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea
2Plant Quarantine Technology Center, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon 39660, Korea
3Institute of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea
Correspondence to leesy1123@knu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) March, 2023, 51(1):25-38.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.20230003
Accepted: March 20, 2023; Revised: March 15, 2023; Received: March 09, 2023
Published: March, 2023.
© 2023 THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY.
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Three fungal strains belonging to the class Sordariomycetes were isolated from soil collected on Jeju Island and Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea. They were identified as Diaporthe endophytica (KNU-JJ-1809), Faurelina indica (KNU-JJ-1830), and Trichoderma ivoriense (KNU-4-KH1). KNU-JJ-1809 produced beta conidia that were straight, curved, hyaline, smooth-walled, with a diameter of 16.5-25.0×0.6-1.7 μm. The conidia of strain KNU-JJ-1830 were hyaline to light green, thin, clavate, round, truncate base, had guttules at both ends, with a diameter of 2.5-5.2×1.7-3.8 μm. The conidia of strain KNU-4-KH1 were oblong or ellipsoidal, smooth-walled, greenish, with a diameter of 2.2-4.4×2.2-3.6 μm. Internal transcribed spacer regions, partial large subunit, translation elongation factor 1-alpha, β-tubulin, and calmodulin genes were used to confirm the strains, and their cultural and morphological characteristics. To our knowledge, this is the first report on D. endophytica, F. indica, and T. ivoriense in Korea.
Diaporthe endophytica, Faurelina indica, Sordariomycetes, Trichoderma ivoriense