Five new species, two new sexual morph reports, and one new geographical record of Apiospora (Amphisphaeriales, Sordariomycetes) isolated from bamboo in Yunnan, China

Li-Su Han; Chao Liu; Dong-Qin Dai; Itthayakorn Promputtha; Abdallah M Elgorban; Salim Al-Rejaie; Qiang Li; Nalin N Wijayawardene

doi:10.3389/fcimb.2024.1476066

Five new species, two new sexual morph reports, and one new geographical record of Apiospora (Amphisphaeriales, Sordariomycetes) isolated from bamboo in Yunnan, China

Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2024 Dec 11:14:1476066. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1476066. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Li-Su Han^#^{1

2}, Chao Liu^#¹, Dong-Qin Dai¹, Itthayakorn Promputtha², Abdallah M Elgorban³, Salim Al-Rejaie⁴, Qiang Li¹, Nalin N Wijayawardene^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China.
² Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
³ Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Tropical Microbiology Research Foundation, Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Apiospora is an important genus in the Apiosporaceae family with a worldwide distribution. They exhibit different lifestyles including pathogenic, saprophytic, and endophytic. In this study, we aimed to explore the Apiospora associated with bamboo and collected 14 apiospora-like taxa from the forests of Yunnan Province, China. Morphological and phylogenetic analyses (combined ITS, LSU, tef1-α, and tub2 sequence data) confirmed that these collections belong to Apiospora s. str. and reports five new species (viz., Ap. dehongensis, Ap. jinghongensis, Ap. shangrilaensis, Ap. zhaotongensis, and Ap. zhenxiongensis). New sexual morphs of asexually typified Ap. globose and Ap. guangdongensis species, and a new geographical record of Ap. subglobosa are also reported. The findings of this study not only enhance the diversity of bambusicolous fungi in the region of Yunnan, but also geographical distribution of some known Apiospora species.

Keywords: Apiosporaceae; bambusicolous fungi; phylogeny; saprobes; taxonomy.

MeSH terms

Ascomycota* / classification
Ascomycota* / genetics
Ascomycota* / isolation & purification
China
DNA, Fungal* / genetics
DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / genetics
Forests
Phylogeny*
Sasa / microbiology
Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

DNA, Fungal
DNA, Ribosomal
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was supported by the Yunnan Revitalization Talents Support Plan (Young Talents Program and High-End Foreign Experts Program), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. NSFC 32460002 and No. NSFC 32060710), and the Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River for supporting this study. The authors further extend their appreciation to the Meemann Chang Academician Workstation in Yunnan Province (202225AF150002), Yunnan Province Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Leaders Reserve Talents Program (202305AC350252), and the General Programs of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology (202101BA070001-076). L-SH would like to thank the Faculty of Science and Graduate School, Chiang Mai University, for supporting the tuition fee for MSc. In addition, the authors extend their appreciation to the Researchers supporting Project Number (RSP2024R120) King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.