Aspergillus hancockii sp. nov., a biosynthetically talented fungus endemic to southeastern Australian soils.

ABSTRACT: Aspergillus hancockii sp. nov., classified in Aspergillus subgenus Circumdati section Flavi, was originally isolated from soil in peanut fields near Kumbia, in the South Burnett region of southeast Queensland, Australia, and has since been found occasionally from other substrates and locations in southeast Australia. It is phylogenetically and phenotypically related most closely to A. leporis States and M. Chr., but differs in conidial colour, other minor features and particularly in metabolite profile. When cultivated on rice as an optimal substrate, A. hancockii produced an extensive array of 69 secondary metabolites. Eleven of the 15 most abundant secondary metabolites, constituting 90% of the total area under the curve of the HPLC trace of the crude extract, were novel. The genome of A

SUBMITTER: Pitt JI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5381763 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature