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Stachybotrys from soil in China, identified by morphology and molecular phylogeny

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Four Stachybotrys strains were isolated from soil in China. One was identified as a novel species by morphological characters of phialides and conidia. It produced cylindrical conidia with irregular striations and smooth, hyaline conidiophores. Phylogenetic analysis of three DNA markers, the internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA (ITS1–5.8S–ITS2), the translation elongation factor 1 alpha (tef1) and RNA polymerase II subunit (rpb2), supported the morphological results. The correlation between morphological and molecular-based clustering demonstrated that the studied isolate was a new species. Two other isolates were identified as S. cf. elegans.

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This project was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 31060005).

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, China

    Chun-Yu Jie, Kun Geng, Yu-Lan Jiang & Yong Wang

  2. Plant Protection and Quarantine Station, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550081, China

    Kun Geng

  3. College of Life Sciences, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, 276005, China

    Jun-Jie Xu

  4. Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand

    Kevin D. Hyde

  5. Landcare Research, Private Bag, 92170, Auckland, New Zealand

    Eric H. C. McKenzie

  6. Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box: 2455, Riyadh, 1145, Saudi Arabia

    Kevin D. Hyde & Ali H. Bahkali

  7. Department of Plant Pathology, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, 271018, China

    Tian-Yu Zhang

  8. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Valley Laboratory, 153 Cook Hill Road, Windsor, CT, 06095, USA

    De-Wei Li

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Jie, CY., Geng, K., Jiang, YL. et al. Stachybotrys from soil in China, identified by morphology and molecular phylogeny. Mycol Progress 12, 693–698 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-012-0878-y

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