Notes of Five Wood-Decaying Fungi from Juwangsan National Park in Korea

Minseo Cho; Sun Lul Kwon; Changmu Kim; Jae-Jin Kim

doi:10.1080/12298093.2023.2299098

Notes of Five Wood-Decaying Fungi from Juwangsan National Park in Korea

Mycobiology. 2024 Jan 24;52(1):30-41. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2023.2299098. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Minseo Cho¹, Sun Lul Kwon¹, Changmu Kim², Jae-Jin Kim¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
² Species Diversity Research Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Wood-decaying fungi are essential decomposers in forest ecosystems. They decompose wood substrates by producing various lignocellulolytic enzymes, which have significant industrial and medical applications. A survey was conducted at the Juwangsan National Park from 2018 to 2019 to determine the diversity of macrofungi in Korea. Five previously unrecorded wood-decaying polyporoid and corticioid fungi were identified among the collected specimens: Eichleriella sinensis, Hymenochaete anomala, Hyphoderma subsetigerum, Lyomyces orientalis, and Pseudowrightoporia crassihypha. These species were identified based on morphological, molecular, and phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and nuclear large subunit rDNA (nLSU) region. In this study, we provide detailed macro- and micro-morphological figures with phylogenetic trees to support the discovery of five new species in Korea.

Keywords: Wood-decaying fungi; corticioid fungi; internal transcribed spacer; polyporoid fungi; taxonomy.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the project of the National Institute of Biological Resources [NIBR202304104] under the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea. This study was also supported by the Korea University Grant.