Title
Three new species of Trichoderma in the Harzianum and Longibrachiatum lineages from Peruvian cacao crop soils based on an integrative approach
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Abstract
The hyperdiverse genus Trichoderma is one of most useful groups of microbes for a number of human activities, and their accurate identification is crucial. The structural simplicity and lack of distinctive phenotypic variation in this group enable the use of DNA-based species delimitation methods in combination with phylogenies (and morphology when feasible) to establish well-supported boundaries among species. Our study employed a multilocus phylogeny and four DNA-based methods (automated barcode gap discovery [ABGD], statistical parsimony [SPN], generalized mixed Yule coalescent [GMYC], and Bayesian phylogenetics and phylogeography [BPP]) for four molecular markers (acl1, act, rpb2, and tef1) to delimit species of two lineages of Trichoderma. Although incongruence among these methods was observed in our analyses, the genetic distance (ABGD) and coalescence (BPP) methods and the multilocus phylogeny strongly supported and confirmed recognition of 108 and 39 different species in the Harzianum and Longibrachiatum lineages, including three new species associated with cacao farms in northern Peru, namely, T.awajun, sp. nov., T.jaklitschii, sp. nov., and T.peruvianum, sp. nov. Morphological distinctions between the new species and their close relatives are primarily related to growth rates, colony appearance, and size of phialides and conidia. This study confirmed that an integrative approach (DNA-based methods, multilocus phylogeny, and phenotype) is more likely to reliably verify supported species boundaries in Trichoderma.
Start page
1056
End page
1072
Volume
113
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Forestal Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85107887541
PubMed ID
Source
Mycologia
ISSN of the container
00275514
Source funding
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica
Sponsor(s)
This study was supported by National Institute of Agricultural Innovation (INIA) grant 004-2016-INIA-PNIA-UPMSI/IE through the National Program for Agricultural Innovation of Peru (PNIA), by grant 10-2018-FONDECYT-BM-ADT-AV from National Foundation for Scientific, Technological Development and Technological Innovation (Fondecyt) of Peru, and by grant SNIP no. 352641–CEINCACAO.
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