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Sacculospora felinovii, a novel arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species (Glomeromycota) from dunes on the west coast of India

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During an arbuscular mycorrhiza fungal spore survey on a primary coastal sand-dune system in Goa on the west coast of India, entrophosporoid spores tightly covered with a dense hyphal mantle were recovered. When intact, the spores, at first sight, seemed to be identical in morphology to those of Sacculospora baltica (originally described as Entrophospora baltica) extracted from Polish maritime sand dunes and, to date, the sole member of the recently described genus Sacculospora in the new family Sacculosporaceae, phylum Glomeromycota. Later detailed morphological studies indicated that both fungi produce two-walled spores but the structure and phenotypic features of components of the outer spore wall in the novel fungus differ considerably from those of S. baltica. Differences between the fungi were subsequently confirmed in the phylogenetic analysis of SSU–ITS–LSU nrDNA sequences. Consequently, we describe the novel species as Sacculospora felinovii sp. nov.

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Acknowledgments

The study was supported, in part, by the Polish National Centre of Science, grant nos. 2012/05/B/NZ8/00498 and 2012/07/N/NZ8/02363. Ms. J. Vaingankar was supported by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.

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  1. Department of Botany, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa, 403 206, India

    Andy Willis, Tanvi Prabhu, James D’Souza & Jyoti Vaingankar

  2. Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Priory St., Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK

    Andy Willis & Phil Harris

  3. Department of Ecology, Protection and Shaping of Environment, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Słowackiego 17, 71434, Szczecin, Poland

    Janusz Błaszkowski, Gerard Chwat & Anna Góralska

  4. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 110 003, India

    Burla Sashidhar & Alok Adholeya

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Willis, A., Błaszkowski, J., Prabhu, T. et al. Sacculospora felinovii, a novel arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species (Glomeromycota) from dunes on the west coast of India. Mycol Progress 15, 791–798 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-016-1208-6

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