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Citation for Study 11288

Citation title: "Why everlastings don?t last".

Study name: "Why everlastings don?t last".

This study is part of submission 11278 (Status: Published).

Citation

Crous P.W., & Groenewald J.Z. 2011. Why everlastings don?t last. Persoonia, 26: 70-84.

Authors

• Crous P.W.
• Groenewald J.Z. (submitter) +31302122600

Abstract

The Cape Floral Region represents one of the world?s biodiversity hot spots, with a high level of plant, animal and insect endemism. The fungi occurring in this region, however, remain poorly studied. It is widely postulated that each plant species should harbour at least five to six unique fungal species, a number that we regard to be a huge underestimate. To test this hypothesis, we decided to study a single senescent flower of Phaenocoma prolifera (?everlasting?; Asteraceae) collected in South Africa, and posed the question as to how many different species of fungi could be isolated and cultivated from 10 leaf bracts. Using a damp chamber technique, numerous microfungi could be induced to sporulate, enabling most of them to be successfully isolated on artificial agar media. Isolates were subsequently subjected to DNA sequencing of the ITS and LSU nrDNA regions. During the course of this study 17 species could be cultivated and identified, of which 11 appeared to be new to science. These include Catenulostroma hermanusense, Cladosporium phaenocomae, Devriesia tardicrescens, Exophiala capensis, Penidiella aggregata, P. ellipsoidea, Teratosphaeria karinae, Toxicocladosporium pseudoveloxum spp. nov., and Xenophacidiella pseudocatenata gen. et sp. nov. Further studies are now required to determine if these fungi also occur as endophytes in healthy flowers. If this trend holds true for other plant hosts from southern Africa, it would suggest that there are many more fungi present in the Cape Floral Region than estimated in previous studies.

Keywords

Batcheloromyces, Catenulostroma, Cladosporium, Devriesia, Exophiala, ITS, LSU, Penicillium, Penidiella, Phaenocoma prolifera, systematics, Teratosphaeria, Toxicocladosporium, Xenophacidiella

External links

• DOI: 10.3767/003158511X574532
• Other URL: http://www.persoonia.org

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S11288
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19535,
  	 author = {Pedro W. Crous and  Johannes (Ewald) Zacharias Groenewald},
  	 title = {Why everlastings don?t last},
  	 year = {2011},
  	 keywords = {Batcheloromyces, Catenulostroma, Cladosporium, Devriesia, Exophiala, ITS, LSU, Penicillium, Penidiella, Phaenocoma prolifera, systematics, Teratosphaeria, Toxicocladosporium, Xenophacidiella},
  	 doi = {10.3767/003158511X574532},
  	 url = {http://www.persoonia.org},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Persoonia},
  	 volume = {26},
  	 number = {},
  	 pages = {70--84},
  	 abstract = {The Cape Floral Region represents one of the world?s biodiversity hot spots, with a high level of plant, animal and insect endemism. The fungi occurring in this region, however, remain poorly studied. It is widely postulated that each plant species should harbour at least five to six unique fungal species, a number that we regard to be a huge underestimate. To test this hypothesis, we decided to study a single senescent flower of Phaenocoma prolifera (?everlasting?; Asteraceae) collected in South Africa, and posed the question as to how many different species of fungi could be isolated and cultivated from 10 leaf bracts. Using a damp chamber technique, numerous microfungi could be induced to sporulate, enabling most of them to be successfully isolated on artificial agar media.  Isolates were subsequently subjected to DNA sequencing of the ITS and LSU nrDNA regions. During the course of this study 17 species could be cultivated and identified, of which 11 appeared to be new to science. These include Catenulostroma hermanusense, Cladosporium phaenocomae, Devriesia tardicrescens, Exophiala capensis, Penidiella aggregata, P. ellipsoidea, Teratosphaeria karinae, Toxicocladosporium pseudoveloxum spp. nov., and Xenophacidiella pseudocatenata gen. et sp. nov. Further studies are now required to determine if these fungi also occur as endophytes in healthy flowers. If this trend holds true for other plant hosts from southern Africa, it would suggest that there are many more fungi present in the Cape Floral Region than estimated in previous studies.}
  }
  		

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  		TY  - JOUR
  ID  - 19535
  AU  - Crous,Pedro W.
  AU  - Groenewald, Johannes (Ewald) Zacharias
  T1  - Why everlastings don?t last
  PY  - 2011
  KW  - Batcheloromyces
  KW  - Catenulostroma
  KW  - Cladosporium
  KW  - Devriesia
  KW  - Exophiala
  KW  - ITS
  KW  - LSU
  KW  - Penicillium
  KW  - Penidiella
  KW  - Phaenocoma prolifera
  KW  - systematics
  KW  - Teratosphaeria
  KW  - Toxicocladosporium
  KW  - Xenophacidiella
  UR  - http://www.persoonia.org
  N2  - The Cape Floral Region represents one of the world?s biodiversity hot spots, with a high level of plant, animal and insect endemism. The fungi occurring in this region, however, remain poorly studied. It is widely postulated that each plant species should harbour at least five to six unique fungal species, a number that we regard to be a huge underestimate. To test this hypothesis, we decided to study a single senescent flower of Phaenocoma prolifera (?everlasting?; Asteraceae) collected in South Africa, and posed the question as to how many different species of fungi could be isolated and cultivated from 10 leaf bracts. Using a damp chamber technique, numerous microfungi could be induced to sporulate, enabling most of them to be successfully isolated on artificial agar media.  Isolates were subsequently subjected to DNA sequencing of the ITS and LSU nrDNA regions. During the course of this study 17 species could be cultivated and identified, of which 11 appeared to be new to science. These include Catenulostroma hermanusense, Cladosporium phaenocomae, Devriesia tardicrescens, Exophiala capensis, Penidiella aggregata, P. ellipsoidea, Teratosphaeria karinae, Toxicocladosporium pseudoveloxum spp. nov., and Xenophacidiella pseudocatenata gen. et sp. nov. Further studies are now required to determine if these fungi also occur as endophytes in healthy flowers. If this trend holds true for other plant hosts from southern Africa, it would suggest that there are many more fungi present in the Cape Floral Region than estimated in previous studies.
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