Seven New Records of Penicillium Species Belonging to Section Lanata- Divaricata in Korea

Monmi Pangging; Thuong T T Nguyen; Hyang Burm Lee

doi:10.1080/12298093.2021.1952814

Seven New Records of Penicillium Species Belonging to Section Lanata- Divaricata in Korea

Mycobiology. 2021 Aug 2;49(4):363-375. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2021.1952814. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Monmi Pangging¹, Thuong T T Nguyen¹, Hyang Burm Lee¹

Affiliation

¹ Environmental Microbiology Lab, Department of Agricultural Biological Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea.

Abstract

Penicillium species are known to be ubiquitous environmental saprophytes. In the survey of diversity of genus Penicillium, seven new records of Penicillium species belonging to section Lanata-Divaricata were isolated from freshwater and soil samples collected from different locations in Korea. Based on morphological characteristics and multilocus phylogenetic analysis of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), β-tubulin (BenA), and calmodulin (CaM) genes, the isolated strains were identified as P. annulatum, P. camponotum, P. echinulonalgiovense, P. globosum, P. limosum, P. onobense, and P. yunnanense, respectively. This study presents detailed phylogenetic analyses and morphological descriptions of these species that contribute to section Lanata-Divaricata in Korea.

Keywords: Freshwater; morphology; phylogeny; section Lanata-Divaricata; soil.

Grants and funding

This work was in part supported by the Project on Survey and Discovery of Indigenous Fungal Species of Korea funded by NIBR, and the Project on Discovery of Fungi from Freshwater and Collection of Fungarium funded by NNIBR of the Ministry of Environment (MOE).