First record of Inocutis tamaricis in Romania with comments on its cultural characteristics

Abstract

-Inocutis tamaricis is a lignicolous basidiomycete associated exclusively with Tamarix species. The fi rst Romanian record of this species is reported from Constanţa city near the Black Sea coast where it was detected on Tamarix tetrandra. We noticed that in pure culture it forms swollen hyphae in the aerial mycelium, which have not been reported so far for I. tamaricis.

New Records of Two Macrofungi Species Based on Morphological and Molecular Identification in Iraq

“…Moreover, variable distances 0.013-7.8 were observed between the Iraqi sequence and other GenBank sequences. The current results were comparable with other reported mean sequence divergences for fungi of 0.004-0.036 (Chinan et al, 2015) and 0.025 (Schoch et al, 2012).…”

“…The specimens were placed in plastic storage containers and transferred to the laboratory for macroscopic and microscopic examinations. Later, species were identified according to Ghobad-Nejhad and Kotiranta (2008), Sharma et al (2013), Chinan et al (2015), Kibby (2016), Sicoli and Mannarino (2017), and Antonín et al (2021). Classification, synonyms, and basionyms were provided according to the GBIF Secretariat (2022).…”

“…Edibility: locally and globally unknown. Distribution: Greece (Piatek, 2001), Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Southern Asia, China (Ryvarden, 2005), Iran (Ghobad-Nejhad and Kotiranta, 2008), India (Sharma et al, 2013), Romania (Chinan et al, 2015), Italy (Sicoli and Mannarino, 2017;Girometta et al, 2020).…”

“…The pairwise sequence alignment of I. tamaricis appeared transversion and transition in the 152-158 and 282 nucleotide positions, respectively, when being compared with the refrance isolate with accession number GQ253453.1 form the Mediterranean Sea (Diag.1). On the other hand, the sequence alignments of M. castaneofusca exhibited transition at the 312 alignment position once the Iraqi isolates paired with Italyi isolates with the acession number MW491323.1(Diag.2) (Chinan et al, 2015;Zhuo et al, 2016;Wu et al, 2019).…”

“…The Iraqi isolate had a high bootstrap value (>79%) compared to other species in the GenBank isolates. Another study by Chinan et al (2015) examined the phylogenetic evolution of I. tamaricis from Romania. The phylogenetic bootstrap value of the investigated species was high >65% compared with other sequences in GenBank.…”