Heteroconium chaetospira, a dark septate root endophyte allied to the Herpotrichiellaceae (Chaetothyriales) obtained from some forest soil samples in Canada using bait plants |
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Authors: | Kazuhiko Narisawa Sarah Hambleton Randolph S. Currah |
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Affiliation: | (1) College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, 3-21-1 Chuo, Ami, Inashiki, Ibaraki 300-0393, Japan;(2) Biodiversity (Mycology and Botany), Environmental Health Program, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;(3) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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Abstract: | During an extended search in Western Canada for fungal root endophytes useful as biocontrol agents against soil-borne pathogens, we isolated Heteroconium chaetospira, as well as Phialocephala fortinii or similar taxa, from seven samples of forest soil using herbaceous seedlings of four different species (i.e., barley, Chinese cabbage, eggplant, and melon) as bait plants. Our results support a previous observation that eggplant is a particularly effective species for baiting H. chaetospira from soil and confirm the ability of this fungus to grow as an endophyte in the roots of axenically reared host plants. Cultural characters show that this species is similar to P. fortinii and other melanized fungi in the dark septate endophyte (DSE) group (e.g., Leptodontidium orchidicola, P. sphaeroides, and Cadophora finlandica) in that it produces darkly pigmented colonies on agar media. Heteroconium chaetospira differs from P. fortinii and other melanized members of the Leotiomycetes in the DSE group in that its conidia are fusiform and develop in blastic acropetal chains. Heteroconium chaetospira is phylogenetically distant from most DSE taxa because DNA sequences for the nuclear small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) indicate that the taxon is affiliated with the Herpotrichiellaceae of the Chaetothyriales rather than with the Leotiomycetes. |
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Keywords: | Capronia Dark septate endophyte (DSE) ITS rDNA Septonema SSU |
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