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First Report of Apinisia keratinophila Isolated from Soil in Korea

First Report of Apinisia keratinophila Isolated from Soil in Korea

• Song-Woon Nam (Department of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)
• Leonid N. Ten (Institute of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)
• Seong-Keun Lim (Department of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)
• Soo-Min Hong (Department of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)
• Seung-Yeol Lee (Department of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea and Institute of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)
• HeeYoung Jung (Department of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea and Institute of Plant Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)

In 2022, a fungal isolate, designated KNUF-22-049, was obtained from a soil sample collected from a field in Sang-ju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea. The strain exhibited cultural and morphological characteristics, including colony color and size and the shapes and sizes of conidiogenous cells and conidia, that were consistent with those of Apinisia keratinophila. A phylogenetic analysis using the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer regions and the large subunit of the nuclear ribosomal RNA gene confirmed that isolate KNUF-22-049 is most closely related to A. keratinophila CBS 947.73T at a species level. Both the morphological observations and phylogenetic analysis indicated that KNUF-22-049 is indeed an A. keratinophila strain. This study represents the first documentation of Apinisia keratinophila in Korea.