Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Unreported Fusarium mangiferae Isolated from Mango in Korea

  • Hee Young Jung
  • , Soo Min Hong
  • , Seong Keun Lim
  • , Song Woon Nam
  • , Leonid N. Ten
  • , Won Kwon Jung
  • , Seung Yeol Lee

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Abstract

Strain KNUF-MG-01 was isolated from a mango tree exhibiting witch’s broom symptoms in Gimhae-si and Gunwi-gun, South Korea. After 7 days of incubation on potato dextrose agar (PDA), the colonies displayed white to rose mycelia and reached dimensions of 79.6‒80.1 mm. Microconidia were abundant, mostly straight or slightly curved, non or one septate, measuring 4.6‒7.5‒13.9 × 2.0‒3.1‒6.4 μm. Macroconidia, characterized by being straight or slightly curved, slender, and 2 to 3 septate, measured 21.4‒36.7 × 3.5‒3.8 μm. Multilocus sequence analysis, using a combined dataset of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions, translation elongation factor-1α (TEF1-α), and β-tubulin (β-TUB) gene sequences, identified KNUF-MG-01 as a strain of Fusarium mangiferae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of F. mangiferae in Korea.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)223-232
Number of pages10
JournalKorean Journal of Mycology
Volume52
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2024

Keywords

  • Fusarium mangiferae
  • mango
  • morphology
  • phylogeny
  • unreported species

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