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) 2023 December, 51(4):335-347.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.20230034
Received on October 16, 2023, Revised on November 15, 2023, Accepted on November 27, 2023, Published on December 31, 2023.
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This is an Open Access article which is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Sordariomycetes is the second largest class of Ascomycota, distributed throughout various habitat including terrestrial and aquatic environments and also existing as endophytes. We isolated endophytic fungal strains in Korea, identifying them based on their morphological characteristics and molecular analyses, using eight specific DNA regions for accurate genus identification. We identified five previously unrecorded endophytic fungal species in Korea: Chaetomium subaffine, Colletotrichum jiangxiense, Colletotrichum sydowii, Diaporthe vacuae and Neurospora tetraspora. In this study, we describe the morphological characteristics and present our phylogenetic analyses of these five fungal species.
Chaetomium subaffine, Colletotrichum jiangxiense, Colletotrichum sydowii, Diaporthe vacuae, Neurospora tetraspora