Four new yeast species of the genus Sporobolomyces from plant leaves

FEMS Yeast Res. 2004 Mar;4(6):579-86. doi: 10.1016/j.femsyr.2003.11.002.

Abstract

Among the ballistoconidium-forming yeast strains isolated from various plant leaves collected in North and Northeast China, 12 strains forming orange to orange-red colored colonies were revealed to represent four novel species of the genus Sporobolomyces by conventional, chemotaxonomic and molecular phylogenetic studies, based on the 26S-rDNA D1/D2 domain and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region sequences. Sporobolomyces beijingensis sp. nov., represented by eight strains (type strain CB 80T = AS 2.2365T = CBS 9730T), and Sporobolomyces jilinensis sp. nov., represented by two strains (type strain CB 118T = AS 2.2301T = CBS 9728T), clustered in the Johnsonii clade of the Sporidiobolus lineage. Sporobolomyces clavatus sp. nov., represented by strain CB 281T (= AS 2.2318T = CBS 9729T), belonged to the Agaricostilbum lineage and showed a close relationship to Sporobolomyces ruber and Sporobolomyces dracophylli. Sporobolomyces symmetricus sp. nov., represented by strain CB 64T(= AS 2.2299T = CBS 9727T), formed nearly symmetrical ballistoconidia and was closely related with Sporobolomyces vermiculatus and Sporobolomyces gracilis in the Gracilis clade of the Erythrobasidium lineage.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Basidiomycota / chemistry
  • Basidiomycota / classification*
  • Basidiomycota / genetics
  • China
  • DNA, Fungal / analysis
  • DNA, Ribosomal / analysis
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / analysis
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mycological Typing Techniques
  • Phylogeny
  • Plant Diseases / microbiology*
  • Plant Leaves / microbiology*
  • RNA, Ribosomal / genetics
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

  • DNA, Fungal
  • DNA, Ribosomal
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
  • RNA, Ribosomal
  • RNA, ribosomal, 26S

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AY363836
  • GENBANK/AY363839
  • GENBANK/AY364837
  • GENBANK/AY364838