Notes of Five Wood-Decaying Fungi from Juwangsan National Park in Korea

Abstract

Wood-decaying fungi are essential decomposers in forest ecosystems. They decompose wood substrates by producing various lignocellulolytic enzymes, which have significant industrial and medical applications. A survey was conducted at the Juwangsan National Park from 2018 to 2019 to determine the diversity of macrofungi in Korea. Five previously unrecorded wood-decaying polyporoid and corticioid fungi were identified among the collected specimens: Eichleriella sinensis, Hymenochaete anomala, Hyphoderma subsetigerum, Lyomyces orientalis, and Pseudowrightoporia crassihypha. These species were identified based on morphological, molecular, and phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and nuclear large subunit rDNA (nLSU) region. In this study, we provide detailed macro- and micro-morphological figures with phylogenetic trees to support the discovery of five new species in Korea.

Keywords:

• Wood-decaying fungi
• polyporoid fungi
• corticioid fungi
• internal transcribed spacer
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Editage (www.editage.co.kr) for English language editing.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationship that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Funding

This research was supported by the project of the National Institute of Biological Resources [NIBR202304104] under the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea. This study was also supported by the Korea University Grant.