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We present data demonstrating that the strain DBVPG 3827 does not belong toC. stellata. From the results of physiological analysis, electrophoretic karyotyping, the PCR-RFLP of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region and the nucleotide sequence of the D1/D2 domain of the 26S rDNA it can be concluded that DBVPG 3827 is a strain ofStarmerella bombicola. This finding, and the recent observation thatC. stellata can easily be confused withC. zemplinina in tests of conventional taxonomy, urges a critical revision of the enological role(s) attributed by researchers toC. stellata.
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This work was supported by the grant NKFP-4/0007/2002 of theHungarian Ministry of Education.
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Šipiczki, M., Ciani, M. & Csoma, H. Taxonomic reclassification ofCandida stellata DBVPG 3827. Folia Microbiol 50, 494–498 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02931436
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