Open AccessTrichoderma taxi sp. nov., an endophytic fungus from Chinese yew Taxus mairei
Author(s) -
Zhang Chulong,
Liu Shupeng,
Lin Fucheng,
Kubicek Christian P.,
Druzhinina Irina S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00659.x
Subject(s) - hypocrea , trichoderma , botany , conidium , biology , fungus , clade , hypocreales , ascomycota , gene , phylogenetics , trichoderma reesei , cellulose , biochemistry , cellulase
Trichoderma taxi sp. nov. was isolated as an endophytic fungus of Taxus mairei growing at the Guanshan Nature Reserve of Jiangxi province, China, and characterized by a combination of phenotypic characteristics and gene analyses of ITS1 and 2, tef1 and rpb2 gene sequences. Distinctive morphological characters of Trichoderma taxi are its white small subglobose conidia and pachybasium‐like conidiophores aggregated into compact pustules. Phylogenetically, Trichoderma taxi forms an independent branch in vicinity to the Lutea ( Hypocrea lutea, Hypocrea melanomagna ) and Pachybasioides ( Hypocrea pachybasioides, Hypocrea minutispora, Hypocrea pilulifera, Hypocrea parapilulifera, Hypocrea lacuwombatensis and Hypocrea stellata ) clades.