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Percent ITS sequence similarity of Arthrinium rasikravindrii with Genbank sequences from related Arthrinium species.
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Arthrinium rasikravindrii sp. nov. was isolated from soil collected in the arctic archipelago Svalbard, Norway. The new species, distinguished by morphological and in vitro cultural characters, forms dark brown lenticular conidia with hyaline equatorial germ slits together with balloon-shaped, anomalous conidia uncommon in the morphologically simil...
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... manually edited sequence of nfcci 2144 was deposited in the NCBI nucleotide sequence database (JF326454) and subjected to a NCBI BLAST search. The partial ITS sequences were aligned using Clustal W together with homologous ITS sequences retrieved from Genbank of the same and related species of Arthrinium (Table 1). Due to inconsistent sequence lengths, portions of the ITS1 and ITS2 were excluded from the analysis. ...
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... For instance, A. kogelbergensis causes the blight disease of Schizostachyum [13], A. sacchari causes the damping-off of durum wheat (Triticum durum) [14], and A. xenocordella causes fruit blight on pistachio (Pistacia vera) [15]. Apiospora shows a cosmopolitan distribution in diverse substrates, including air [4,16], soil [4,[16][17][18], freshwater [19], marine environments [20][21][22][23][24][25], lichens [26], insect guts [27], and human tissues [3,[28][29][30]. Interestingly, some species (e.g., A. arundinis, A. sacchari) have been reported as a source of useful bioactive compounds, such as antifungal agents and enzymes [21,22,31], possessing great potential for their commercial applications in the pharmaceutical industries. ...
... In addition, their morphological features can vary depending on incubation periods and different substrates [3]. Thus, morphological characteristics integrated with molecular phylogeny have been widely accepted to distinguish Apiospora species [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]12,17,[36][37][38][39]. Presently, 117 epithets are recognized in Apiospora [40], comprising 76 Arthrinium species, which were synonymized under Apiospora [2,12,25]. ...
Taxonomic studies of bambusicolous fungi in China and Thailand have resulted in the collection of three fascinating saprobic coelomycetes strains. Morphology coupled with combined gene analysis of ITS, LSU, TUB2, and TEF1-α DNA sequence data showed that they belong to the genus Apiospora, family Apiosporaceae. A new species from Thailand, Apiospora mukdahanensis, and new records of A. locuta-pollinis from China are herein described. In addition, based on both morphological data coupled with phylogenetics and nomenclatural analyses, A. mori is proposed as a new combination. Maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian analyses were performed to clarify the phylogenetic affinities of the species obtained in this study. Newly obtained strains are compared with morphologically- and phylogenetically-related taxa. The comprehensive descriptions, illustrations, and updated phylogeny are provided and discussed for intra-and intergeneric relationships within Apiospora species
... The sequences employed (Suppl. material 1) were mainly retrieved from Smith et al. (2003), Singh et al. (2012), Crous and Groenewald (2013), Crous et al. (2015Crous et al. ( , 2020, Senanayake et al. (2015), Dai et al. (2016Dai et al. ( , 2017, Wang et al. (2017Wang et al. ( , 2018 Phukhamsakda et al. (2022) and Samarakoon et al. (2022). Sequences first were aligned in MEGA software with its Clustal W application and then corrected manually. ...
In the present work, an epitype for Sphaeria apiospora , the basionym of the type species of the genus Apiospora , Apiospora montagnei , is selected among collections growing in the host plant species reported in the original protologue, Arundo micrantha . Most samples obtained from localities near that of the lectotype (Perpignan, France) belong to the same species, which is not significantly different from the clade previously named Ap. phragmitis , suggesting that this name is a later synonym of Ap. montagnei . In addition, the name Ap. marianiae is here proposed to accommodate a newly discovered species found in the Balearic Islands (Spain), and the asexual state of Ap. sichuanensis is described for the first time from samples growing in the same islands.
... Arthrinium and related genera are important fungal taxa whose concepts and classification have undergone many changes and additions (e.g. Cooke 1954;Samuels et al. 1981;Larrondo and Calvo 1990;Hyde et al. 1998;Jaklitsch and Voglmayr 2012;Crous and Groenewald 2013;Singh et al. 2013;Sharma et al. 2014;Dai et al. 2016Dai et al. , 2017Hyde et al. 2016;Jiang et al. 2018Jiang et al. , 2020Wang et al. 2018;Pintos et al. 2019;Pintos and Alvarado 2021). In recent years, substantial changes in classification were implemented in the course of unitary nomenclature. ...
Species of Arthrinium s. l. are usually known as endophytes, pathogens or saprobes occurring on various hosts and substrates and are characterised by globose to subglobose, sometimes irregular, dark brown and smooth-walled or finely verruculose conidia, always with a truncate basal scar. Currently, Arthrinium s. l. contains two phylogenetically distinct clades, namely, Apiospora and Arthrinium s. s. However, Arthrinium trachycarpi and Ar. urticae have still not been properly classified. With new isolates from diseased leaves of Lithocarpus glaber collected in China, we propose the new Arthrinium -like genus Neoarthrinium in Amphisphaeriales. Based on the morphology and phylogeny of multiple loci, the new genus is established with the type species, N. lithocarpicola and three new combinations, N. moseri (syn. Wardomyces moseri ), N. trachycarpi (syn. Ar. trachycarpi ) and N. urticae (syn. Ar. urticae ) are added to this genus.
... Such fungi exist in nature as endo-parasites and are widely distributed all over the world [1,2]. As per the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the taxonomic classification of this fungus is under Fungi, Dikarya, Ascomycota, Saccharomyces, Pezizomycotina, Leotiomyceta, Sordariomyceta, Sordariomycetes, Xylariomycetidae, Xylariales, Apiosporaceae, Arthrinium, A. rasikravindrae and was first reported by Singh et al. [3] from Norway. Previously, A. rasikravindrae fungus was reported as A. phaeospermum and then re-determined as A. rasikravindrii but recently, it has orthographically been corrected to A. rasikravindrae. ...
... assessed on 16 August 2020) and Index Fungorum (http://www.indexfunorum.org assessed on 16 August 2020) [3,4]. Numerous associations were originating dead culms of Ph. aurea from Europe as well by [5]. ...
Abstract: Devastating fungi are one of the most important biotic factors associated with numerous
infectious diseases not only in plants but in animals and humans too. Arthrinium rasikravindrae
a devastating fungus is responsible for severe infections in a large number of host plants all over
the world. In the present study, we analyzed the whole genome sequence of devastating fungus
A. rasikravindrae strain AQZ-20, using Illumina Technology from the Novogene Bio-informatics Co.,
Ltd. Beijing, China. To identify associated annotation results, various corresponding functional
annotations databases were utilized. The genome size was 48.24 MB with an N90 (scaffolds) length
of 2,184,859 bp and encoded putative genes were 11,101, respectively. In addition, we evaluated the
comparative genomic analyses with 4 fungal strains of Ascomycetes. Two related species showed
a strong correlation while others exhibited a weak correlation with the A. rasikravindrae AQZ-20 fungus. This study is a discovery of the genome-scale assembly, as well as annotation for A. rasikravindrae.
The results obtained from the whole genome sequencing and genomic resources developed in this
study will contribute significantly to genetic improvement applications against diseases caused by
A. rasikravindrae. In addition, the phylogenetic tree, followed by genomic RNA, transcriptomic,
proteomic, metabolic, as well as pathogenic data reported in current research will provide deep
insight for further studies in the future.
... Conidia brown, smooth, globose to ellipsoid in surface view, (6.9-)7.5-8. Remarks -Notably, the diameters of A. rasikravindrae (KUC21327 and KUC21351) conidial cells are smaller than those of the A. rasikravindrae-type culture [NFCCI 2144, lenticular, ovoid in face view, 10-15 Â 6.0-10.5 mm (n ¼ 50); elongate to clavate conidia, 15-25 Â 7.5-10 mm (n ¼ 50)] (Supplemental Table S2) [29]. However, the conidiophores described in the original description of this species were not observed in this strain. ...
... However, the conidiophores described in the original description of this species were not observed in this strain. The optimum temperatures for the growth of Apiospora rasikravindrae have been established as 18 C for an Arctic isolate and 25 C for Japanese and Chinese strains [29]. Growth of the strains examined in the present study appeared to be optimal within a range of 20-25 C, which is consistent with those of the type strains. ...
... On the basis of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic analyses, we thus propose the transfer of these eight marine Arthrinium under new combinations of Apiospora species. [29]. However, both strains were well clustered with A. rasikravindrae with high support values in the phylogenetic tree based on a combination of ITS, TEF, and TUB sequences (Supplemental Figure S1). ...
Although Apiospora Sacc. has previously been considered a sexual morph of Arthrinium species on the basis of phylogenetic, morphological, and ecological diagnoses, a recent study delimited these as different species. Recently, 14 species, including eight new species, of marine Arthrinium have been reported from Korea. Six known species have previously been renamed as species in the genus Apiospora (A. arundinis, A. marii, A. piptatheri, A. rasikravindrae, A. sacchari, and A. saccharicola). However, the eight new species of marine Arthrinium (Ar. agari, Ar. arctoscopi, Ar. fermenti, Ar. koreanum, Ar. marinum, Ar. pusillispermum, Ar. sargassi, and Ar. taeanense) are yet to be studied, and thus the taxonomic status of these species remains to be clarified. In this study, we conducted phylogenetic analyses using the internal transcribed spacer, 28S large subunit ribosomal RNA gene, translation elongation factor 1-alpha, and beta-tubulin regions to confirm the phylogenetic position of these eight species. Based on these analyses, we re-identified the eight Arthrinium species as new combinations in Apiospora. Additionally, among the six known Apiospora species, two (A. piptatheri and A. rasikravindrae) have not previously been recorded in Korea. On the basis of morphological and molecular analyses, we report these as new species in Korea. Herein, we present scanning electron micrographs detailing the morphologies of these species, along with phylogenetic trees and detailed descriptions.
... Arthrinium species have traditionally been classified based on morphological characteristics such as conidial shape, conidiophores, and the presence or absence of sterile cells and setae (Schmidt & Kunze 1817;Hughes 1953;Minter 1985). Among these characteristics, conidial shape appears to be diagnostic for distinguishing species (Singh et al. 2013). However, morphological variation is often observed depending on the growth substrate and incubation period (Crous & Groenewald 2013). ...
... 2013), b(Wang et al. 2018), c(Singh et al. 2013), d(Dai et al. 2016), e(Larrondo 1992), f(Sharma et al. 2014), g (Crous et al. 2015), h (Senanayake et al. 2015), i (Dai et al. 2017), j (Hyde et al. 2016), k (Larrondo and Calvo 1990), l (Jiang et al. 2018), m (Wang et al. 2017), n (Pintos et al. 2019), o (Wang et al. 2017), p (Jones et al. 2009), q (Luo et al. 2019), r (Cooke 1954), s (Jiang et al. 2020), t (Ellis 1972), u (Pollack and Benjamin, 2020), v (Zhao et al. 2018), w (Yan et al. 2019), x (Hyde et al. 2020), y (Yang et al. 2019), z (Jiang et al. 2019), A (Calvo 1980), B (Rambelli et al. 2008), C (Sukova 2004), D (Harvard University Herbaria and Libraries (HUH), n.d.), E (Joint Publications Research Service Arlington (JPRSA) VA, 1977), F (Fungi of Great Britain and Ireland (FGBI), n.d.), G (Rabenhorst and Lindau 1907), H (Hyde et al. 1998), and I (Minter and Cannon 2018). The species which not have any information about ITS, TEF, and TUB regions were marked by "*". ...
... kamischaticum) or a polygon (A. puccinioides), and the other with globose to ellipsoid conidia (Singh et al. 2013). All Arthrinium species in this study produced globose to subglobose or globose to ellipsoid conidia. ...
Species of Arthrinium are well-known plant pathogens, endophytes, or saprobes found in various terrestrial habitats. Although several species have been isolated from marine environments and their remarkable biological activities have been reported, marine Arthrinium species remain poorly understood. In this study, the diversity of this group was evaluated based on material from Korea, using morphological characterization and molecular analyses with the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, β-tubulin (TUB), and translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF). A total of 41 Arthrinium strains were isolated from eight coastal sites which represented 14 species. Eight of these are described as new to science with detailed descriptions.
... Apiospora rasikravindrae was originally isolated from soil in Norway [47]. Apiospora rasikravindrae occurred on Capsicum, Kappaphycus alvarezii, Pinus, Platanus acerifolia, rice, Sargassum thunbergia and Triticum aestivum from Brazil, China, India, Japan, Netherlands, Svalbard and Thailand [3,48]. ...
The genus Apiospora is known as a cosmopolitan genus, found across various substrates. In this study, four Apiospora taxa were obtained from the decaying stems of bamboo and maize in northern Thailand. Apiospora collections were compared with known species based on the morphological characteristics and the DNA sequence data of internal transcribed spacer (ITS), the partial large subunit nuclear rDNA (LSU), the translation elongation factor 1-alpha gene (TEF1-α) and beta-tubulins (TUB2). Apiospora chiangraiense sp. nov. and two new host records (Ap. intestini and Ap. rasikravindra) are introduced here based on the morphological characteristics and multi-locus analyses. Additionally, thirteen species previously identified as Arthrinium are introduced as new combinations in Apiospora, viz., Ap. acutiapica, Ap. bambusicola, Ap. biserialis, Ap. cordylines, Ap. cyclobalanopsidis, Ap. euphorbiae, Ap. gelatinosa, Ap. locuta-pollinis, Ap. minutispora, Ap. pseudorasikravindrae, Ap. septate, Ap. setariae and Ap. sorghi.
... Notes: As morphology examined largely overlapped with Arthrinium rasikravindrae, we report our collection as a new host record of A. rasikravindrae from dead leaves of Morus australis. It shares similar size range of conidial dimensions (15-20 × 7-11 µm vs 15-25 × 7.5-10 µm) (Singh et al. 2013). Multi-locus phylogeny (LSU, ITS and TEF1-α) also indicates that our collection nests within Arthrinium rasikravindrae isolates with 97% ML, 1.00 BYPP statistical support (Fig. 76). ...
This article provides descriptions and illustrations of microfungi associated with the leaf litter of Celtis formosana, Ficus ampelas, F. septica, Macaranga tanarius and Morus australis collected from Taiwan. These host species are native to the island and Celtis formosana is an endemic tree species. The study revealed 95 species, consisting of two new families (Cylindrohyalosporaceae and Oblongohyalosporaceae), three new genera (Cylindrohyalospora, Neodictyosporium and Oblongohyalospora), 41 new species and 54 new host records. The newly described species are Acrocalymma ampeli (Acrocalymmaceae), Arthrinium mori (Apiosporaceae), Arxiella celtidis (Muyocopronaceae), Bertiella fici (Melanommataceae), Cercophora fici (Lasiosphaeriaceae), Colletotrichum celtidis, C. fici, C. fici-septicae (Glomerellaceae), Conidiocarpus fici-septicae (Capnodiaceae), Coniella fici (Schizoparmaceae), Cylindrohyalospora fici (Cylindrohyalosporaceae), Diaporthe celtidis, D. fici-septicae (Diaporthaceae), Diaporthosporella macarangae (Diaporthosporellaceae), Diplodia fici-septicae (Botryosphaeriaceae), Discosia celtidis, D. fici (Sporocadaceae), Leptodiscella sexualis (Muyocopronaceae), Leptospora macarangae (Phaeosphaeriaceae), Memnoniella alishanensis, M. celtidis, M. mori (Stachybotryaceae), Micropeltis fici, M. ficina (Micropeltidaceae), Microthyrium fici-septicae (Microthyriaceae), Muyocopron celtidis, M. ficinum, Mycoleptodiscus alishanensis (Muyocopronaceae), Neoanthostomella fici (Xylariales genera incertae sedis), Neodictyosporium macarangae (Sordariales genera incertae sedis), Neofusicoccum moracearum (Botryosphaeriaceae), Neophyllachora fici (Phyllachoraceae), Nigrospora macarangae (Apiosporaceae), Oblongohyalospora macarangae (Oblongohyalosporaceae), Ophioceras ficinum (Ophioceraceae), Parawiesneriomyces chiayiensis (Wiesneriomycetaceae), Periconia alishanica, P. celtidis (Periconiaceae), Pseudocercospora fici-septicae (Mycosphaerellaceae), Pseudoneottiospora cannabacearum (Chaetosphaeriaceae) and Pseudopithomyces mori (Didymosphaeriaceae). The new host records are Alternaria burnsii, A. pseudoeichhorniae (Pleosporaceae), Arthrinium hydei, A. malaysianum, A. paraphaeospermum, A. rasikravindrae, A. sacchari (Apiosporaceae), Bartalinia robillardoides (Sporocadaceae), Beltrania rhombica (Beltraniaceae), Cladosporium tenuissimum (Cladosporiaceae), Coniella quercicola (Schizoparmaceae), Dematiocladium celtidicola (Nectriaceae), Diaporthe limonicola, D. millettiae, D. pseudophoenicicola (Diaporthaceae), Dictyocheirospora garethjonesii (Dictyosporiaceae), Dimorphiseta acuta (Stachybotryaceae), Dinemasporium parastrigosum (Chaetosphaeriaceae), Discosia querci (Sporocadaceae), Fitzroyomyces cyperacearum (Stictidaceae), Gilmaniella bambusae (Ascomycota genera incertae sedis), Hermatomyces biconisporus (Hermatomycetaceae), Lasiodiplodia thailandica, L. theobromae (Botryosphaeriaceae), Memnoniella echinata (Stachybotryaceae), Muyocopron dipterocarpi, M. lithocarpi (Muyocopronaceae), Neopestalotiopsis asiatica, N. phangngaensis (Sporocadaceae), Ophioceras chiangdaoense (Ophioceraceae), Periconia byssoides (Periconiaceae), Pestalotiopsis dracaenea, P. formosana, P. neolitseae, P. papuana, P. parva, P. portugallica, P. trachycarpicola (Sporocadaceae), Phragmocapnias betle (Capnodiaceae), Phyllosticta capitalensis (Phyllostictaceae), Pseudopestalotiopsis camelliae-sinensis (Sporocadaceae), Pseudopithomyces chartarum, P. sacchari (Didymosphaeriaceae), Pseudorobillarda phragmitis (Pseudorobillardaceae), Robillarda roystoneae (Sporocadaceae), Sirastachys castanedae, S. pandanicola (Stachybotryaceae), Spegazzinia musae (Didymosphaeriaceae), Stachybotrys aloeticola, S. microspora (Stachybotryaceae), Strigula multiformis (Strigulaceae), Torula fici (Torulaceae), Wiesneriomyces laurinus (Wiesneriomycetaceae) and Yunnanomyces pandanicola (Sympoventuriaceae). The taxonomic placement of most taxa discussed in this study is based on morphological observation of specimens, coupled with multi-locus phylogenetic analyses of sequence data. In addition, this study provides a host-fungus database for future studies and increases knowledge of fungal diversity, as well as new fungal discoveries from the island.
... BLAST (Altschul et al. 1990) was used to select the most closely related sequences from the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC, Cochrane et al. 2011) public database, andUNITE (Nilsson et al. 2018). The sequences employed (Supplementary Table S1) were mainly retrieved from Smith et al. (2003), Singh et al. (2012), Crous & Groenewald (2013), Crous et al. (2015Crous et al. ( , 2020, Senanayake et al. (2015), Dai et al. (2016Dai et al. ( , 2017, Wang et al. (2017Wang et al. ( , 2018, Jiang et al. (2018Jiang et al. ( , 2019Jiang et al. ( , 2020, Liu et al. (2019), Pintos et al. (2019), Yan et al. (2019), andYang et al. (2019). Sequences first were aligned in MEGA software with its Clustal W application and then corrected manually. ...
... However, genetic differences between the "Papularia"-like species of Arthrinium that grow worldwide mainly on Poaceae, and some species found on Cyperaceae and Juncaceae in temperate or cold habitats (Ar. puccinioides, Ar. japonicum) could already be observed in the phylogenetic analyses conducted by Singh et al. (2012), Sharma et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2018), and Yan et al. (2019), although the issue was not discussed by these authors or investigated further. Pintos et al. (2019) analysed the type species of Arthrinium, Ar. caricicola, and found that it groups with the samples occurring mainly on Cyperaceae and Juncaceae hosts in temperate or cold habitats, suggesting that this clade is not monophyletic with Apiospora and the "Papularia"-like species of Arthrinium. ...
In the present study six species of Arthrinium (including a new taxon, Ar. crenatum) are described and subjected to phylogenetic analysis. The analysis of ITS and 28S rDNA, as well as sequences of tef1 and tub2 exons suggests that Arthrinium s. str. and Apiospora represent independent lineages within Apiosporaceae. Morphologically, Arthrinium and Apiospora do not seem to have clear diagnostic features, although species of Arthrinium often produce variously shaped conidia (navicular, fusoid, curved, polygonal, rounded), while most species of Apiospora have rounded (face view) / lenticular (side view) conidia. Ecologically, most sequenced collections of Arthrinium were found on Cyperaceae or Juncaceae in temperate, cold or alpine habitats, while those of Apiospora were collected mainly on Poaceae (but also many other plant host families) in a wide range of habitats, including tropical and subtropical regions. A lectotype for Sphaeria apiospora (syn.: Ap. montagnei, type species of Apiospora) is selected among the original collections preserved at the PC fungarium, and the putative identity of this taxon, found on Poaceae in Mediterranean lowland habitats, is discussed. Fifty-five species of Arthrinium are combined to Apiospora, and a key to species of Arthrinium s. str. is provided.
Citation: Pintos Á, Alvarado P (2021). Phylogenetic delimitation of Apiospora and Arthrinium. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 7: 197–221. doi: 10.3114/fuse.2021.07.10
... Arthrinium Kunze., in Kunze & Schmidt, Mykologische Hefte (Leipzig) 1: 9 (1817) Notes -Species in Arthrinium are found in a wide range of hosts as plant pathogens (Chen et al. 2014), lichens (He & Zhang 2012) marine algae (Suryanarayanan 2012), soil (Singh et al. 2012) and human pathogens (de Hoog et al. 2000). The current study identified one strain of Arthrinium jiangxiense (Fig. 34). ...
Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea, is one of the most economically important crops in China. Shoot and leaf necrosis in tea is of considerable concern as it directly affects the quality and quantity of tea leaf harvest. In the present study, diseased leaves and shoots were collected from Fujian Province to identify the fungal species associated with the disease. In total 110 strains were isolated and they were identified by morphological characteristics and multi-locus phylogenetic approaches. Thirty-two species belonging to 13 genera and 11 families associated with shoot and leaf necrosis of tea were identified. Five new species; Chaetomium camelliae, Diaporthe fujianensis, D. fusiformis, D. sinensis and Trichoderma camelliae are introduced. In addition, nine novel host records are reported. These results indicate high species richness on tea leaves and shoots. In addition, a checklist for fungi associated with C. sinensis worldwide is provided. Information presented in this study provides new insights into fungi associated with leaf necrosis and shoot blight of C. sinensis in China. However, further studies are necessary to understand the pathogenic potential and biocontrol ability of the species identified in this study.
