Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with mangroves in South Africa, including Ophiostoma palustre sp. nov.

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• 作者：J. Alexander Osorio ; Z. Wilhelm De Beer ; Michael J. Wingfield…
• 关键词：Barringtonia ; Ophiostomatales ; Sporothrix ; Wound infection
• 刊名：Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：109
• 期：12
• 页码：1555-1571
• 全文大小：1,070 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Microbiology
  Medical Microbiology
  Plant Sciences
  Soil Science and Conservation
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9699
• 卷排序：109

文摘

Mangrove trees are continuously under stress due to environmental and/or anthropogenic pressures, which expose them to attack by pathogens, compromising their survival. Ophiostomatoid fungi cause sap stain and diseases of a wide spectrum of tree species globally. These fungi infect trees through natural, insect, animal and/or human made wounds. During routine surveys of mangrove trees in South Africa, wounds on branches and stems of Avicennia marina were regularly monitored for the presence of ophiostomatoid fungi at ten study sites in the country. The stems of four mangrove species, A. marina, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, Rhizophora mucronata and Barringtonia racemosa were also wounded and evaluated for the appearance of these fungi. Ophiostomatoid fungi were obtained from the mangrove associate B. racemosa, but not from any of the true mangroves. Analyses of DNA sequence data for the internal transcribed spacer, β-tubulin, calmodulin and translation elongation factor gene regions revealed that the fungi isolated from the wounds on B. racemosa belong to three species in the Ophiostomataceae, including a new taxon described here as Ophiostoma palustre sp. nov. These results suggest that the mangrove associate B. racemosa is more prone to colonization by ophiostomatoid fungi than the true mangroves.