Brassicaceous roots as an unexpected diversity hot-spot of helotialean endophytes.

ABSTRACT: A high number of fungal strains were isolated from roots of Brassicaceae species collected across western and southern Europe, resulting in an unexpectedly rich collection of Cadophora species. These isolates enable us to present a new and comprehensive view of the ecological, morphological, and phylogenetic traits of root-inhabiting members of this helotialean genus. We provide phylogenetic placement of all of our isolates based on a four-gene dataset, analyze their phenotypic traits in relation to their phylogenetic relationships, and infer the potential distribution ranges of the species by sequence comparisons with available databases. We consider seven well supported phylogenetic lineages as species new to science. Six further lineages probably also represent new species

SUBMITTER: Macia-Vicente JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7419212 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature