<i>Nigrospora humicola</i> (Apiosporaceae, Amphisphaeriales), a New Fungus from Soil in China
Ying-Ying Zhang,
Ting Zhang,
Hai-Yan Li,
Ran Zheng,
Jie Ren,
Qin Yang,
Ning Jiang
Affiliations
Ying-Ying Zhang
Chengde Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Chengde 067000, China
Ting Zhang
Chengde Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Chengde 067000, China
Hai-Yan Li
Chengde Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Chengde 067000, China
Ran Zheng
Chengde Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Chengde 067000, China
Jie Ren
Chengde Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, Chengde 067000, China
Qin Yang
Forestry Biotechnology Hunan Key Laboratories, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
Ning Jiang
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
The fungal genus Nigrospora is known to be a plant pathogen, endophyte, and saprobe, and it is usually isolated from various substrates like soil and air. During the surveys of soil fungi in Hebei Province of China, two isolates of Nigrospora were obtained. A multi-locus phylogeny of combined loci of the 5.8S nuclear ribosomal gene with the two flanking transcribed spacers (ITS), part of the translation elongation factor 1-alpha (tef1), and the beta-tubulin (tub2) loci, in conjunction with morphological characters were used to identify the newly collected isolates. Nigrospora humicola sp. Nov. is described and proposed herein, which differs from its phylogenetically close species N. chinensis and N. globosa by the sequences of ITS, tef1, and tub2.
