Mycobiology (Nov 2022)

Five Previously Unrecorded Fungal Species Isolated from Marine Plastic Wastes in South Korea

  • Ji Seon Kim,
  • Sung Hyun Kim,
  • Wonjun Lee,
  • Chang Wan Seo,
  • Jun Won Lee,
  • Ki Hyeong Park,
  • Young Woon Lim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/12298093.2022.2152951
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 50, no. 6
pp. 420 – 428

Abstract

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AbstractPlastic wastes have a negative impact on marine environments; however, they can be used as carbon sources and habitats by certain microbes. Microbes in the marine plastisphere can migrate worldwide through the ocean and cause serious environmental problems when they encounter suitable environments. Therefore, efforts to investigate the microbes inhabiting the marine plastisphere are increasing. In the present study, fungal strains were isolated from plastic wastes buried in Korean sea sands and mudflats and identified using molecular and morphological analyses. Five species were identified that were previously unrecorded from South Korea: Cladosporium funiculosum, Neosetophoma poaceicola, Neosetophoma rosigena, Parasarocladium gamsii, and Trichoderma fomiticola. Their molecular phylogenies and morphological characteristics are described in this study.

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