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Eukaryotic Micro-Organisms

Kwoniella shandongensis sp. nov., a basidiomycetous yeast isolated from soil and bark from an apple orchard

Ru Chen, Yuan-Mao Jiang, Shao-Chong Wei, Qi-Ming Wang

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Horticulture Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Street, Tai’an, Shandong 271018, PR China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 52 Sanlihe Road, Beijing 100101, PR China
  • Correspondence
    Yuan-Mao Jiang ymjiang{at}sdau.edu.cn

    • International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2012; 62(Pt 11):2774–2777 · https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.039172-0

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    Abstract

    Four basidiomycetous yeast strains (Y13-1T, Y2-1, Y6-3 and Y8-2) were isolated from soil and bark collected from an apple orchard in Tai’an, Shandong province, PR China. Phylogenetic analysis based on 26S rRNA gene D1/D2 domains and ITS regions revealed that these novel strains were located in the Kwoniella clade in the class Tremellomycetes and were closely related to Cryptococcus cuniculi and Kwoniella heveanensis, but were clearly distinct from these species. Therefore, it is proposed that the new strains represent a novel species, Kwoniella shandongensis sp. nov., with the type strain Y13-1T( = CGMCC 2.04458T = CBS 12478T). The MycoBank number for the novel species is MB 564868.

    • The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the18S rRNA gene, ITS region and the 26S rRNA gene D1/D2 domain sequences of strains Y13-1T, Y2-1, Y6-3 and Y8-2 are JN160602 and JQ327850–JQ327852, respectively.

    • The MycoBank number for Kwoniella shandongensis sp. nov. is MB564868.

    • A supplementary figure is available with the online version of this paper.

    Abbreviations:
    ITS
    internal transcribed spacer