doi: 10.4489/KJM.20230034 Citation BibTeX RIS Mendeley

Five Unrecorded Endophytic Fungal Species in Sordariomycetes from Korea

Five Unrecorded Endophytic Fungal Species in Sordariomycetes from Korea

• Jae-Eui Cha (Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea)
• Eun-Ju Kim (Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea)
• Yun-Jeong Kim (Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea)
• Ahn-Heum Eom (Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Korea)

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.