Hyeongjin Noh, Hyun Uk Cho, Jun Woo Cho, Seong Jae Ahn, and Seong Hwan Kim *
Department of Microbiology, College of Science and Technology, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116,
Korea
Correspondence to piceae@dankook.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December, 2023, 51(4):471-490.
https://doi.org/10.4489/kjm.20230048
Accepted: December 26, 2023; Revised: December 26, 2023; Received: November 06, 2023
Published: December, 2023.
© 2023 THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY.
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Soil is a rich source of saprobic and pathogenic fungi in crop cultivation areas. Compared with that of the fruit trees, scarce information is available regarding the fungi present in orchard soils in Korea. We sampled rhizosphere soils of apple and pear trees from several orchards in Cheongju, Anseong, and Cheonan, Korea. During the processing of soil fungi, seven unrecorded species of the phylum Ascomycota were isolated. These included Acrocalymma walkeri, Clonostachys krabiensis, Coniella vitis, Cosmospora diminuta, Lasiobolidium spirale, Penicillium vallebormidaense, and Pseudothielavia arxii. All the species were identified and described based on morphological characteristics and molecular analysis of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region and the large subunit of nuclear ribosomal RNA gene and partial β-tubulin gene (BenA) sequences. Descriptions and illustrations of the morphological characteristics are provided.
Apple and pear orchards, Rhizosphere soil, Unrecorded species