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ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH THE ANTARCTIC GRASS DESCHAMPSIA ANTARCTICA DESV. (POACEAE)
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Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Microbiologia. Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Microbiologia. Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Microbiologia. Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Microbiologia. Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Microbiologia. Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil
Abstract
Deschampsia antarctica Desv. (Poaceae) represents one of the two vascular plants that have colonized the Antarctic continent, which is usually exposed to extreme environmental conditions. In this work, we have characterized the endophytic fungi associated with the leaves of D. antarctica. Endophytic fungi were recovered from 91 individual plants from different points of Admiralty Bay at King George Island, Antarctica. A total of 26 fungal isolates were obtained from 273 leaf fragments. All isolates were identified by analysis of the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) of the rDNA. Alternaria and Phaeosphaeria were the most frequent genera associated with the plant. Other fungal isolates were identified as Entrophospora sp. and several undescribed Ascomycete species. An interesting result was obtained for the isolates UFMGCB 215 and UFMGCB 262, which were related to fungi associated with bryophytes present in boreal ecosystems. Some isolates showed low identity in the ITS sequences to sequences of fungal species deposited in GenBank, suggesting that these fungi could be new species. This work is the first report on fungal endophytes associated with leaves of the Antarctic grass D. antarctica
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