Frontiers in Microbiology (Apr 2021)

Additions to the Genus Arthrinium (Apiosporaceae) From Bamboos in China

  • Yao Feng,
  • Yao Feng,
  • Jian-Kui (Jack) Liu,
  • Chuan-Gen Lin,
  • Ya-Ya Chen,
  • Ya-Ya Chen,
  • Mei-Mei Xiang,
  • Zuo-Yi Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.661281
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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Arthrinium has a widespread distribution occurring in various substrates (e.g., air, soil debris, plants, lichens, marine algae and even human tissues). It is characterized by the basauxic conidiogenesis in the asexual morph, with apiospores in the sexual morph. In this study, seventeen isolates of Arthrinium were collected in China. Based on their morphology and phylogenetic characterization, four new species (A. biseriale, A. cyclobalanopsidis, A. gelatinosum, and A. septatum) are described and seven known species (A. arundinis, A. garethjonesii, A. guizhouense, A. hydei, A. neosubglobosa, A. phyllostachium and A. psedoparenchymaticum) are identified, of which the sexual morph of three species (A. guizhouense, A. phyllostachium and A. psedoparenchymaticum) and asexual morph of A. garethjonesii are reported for the first time. The detailed descriptions, illustrations and comparisons with related taxa of these new collections are provided. Phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, LSU, TUB2, and TEF sequence data support their placements in the genus Arthrinium and justify the new species establishments and identifications of known species.

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