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Sexual Morph of Furcasterigmium furcatum (Plectosphaerellaceae) from Magnolia liliifera Collected in Northern Thailand
Jutamart Monkai1, Ruvishika S. Jayawardena1,2, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura3,*, Kevin D. Hyde1
1 Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
2 School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
3 School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
* Corresponding Author: Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura. Email:
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2020, 89(3), 765-777. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2020.09720
Received 16 January 2020; Accepted 20 March 2020; Issue published 22 June 2020
Abstract
We isolated an interesting fungus from dead leaves of
Magnolia liliifera
collected from Chiang Mai, Thailand. The novel strain is related to Plectosphaerellaceae based on the morphology of its asexual morph and the analysis of
sequence data. Phylogenetic analyses using a combined gene analysis of LSU
and ITS sequence data showed that this strain is clustered in the same clade with
Furcasterigmium furcatum with high statistical support. The new strains produced
the asexual morph in culture which is morphologically similar to
F. furcatum.
Thus, we identified this strain as the sexual morph of
F. furcatum. This is the first
record of sexual morph for the monotypic genus
Furcasterigmium and the first
record of this genus on
Magnolia.
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Monkai, J., Jayawardena, R. S., S., S., Hyde, K. D. (2020). Sexual Morph of
Furcasterigmium furcatum (Plectosphaerellaceae) from
Magnolia liliifera Collected in Northern Thailand.
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, 89(3), 765–777. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2020.09720