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Genetic diversity shown in Trichoderma biocontrol isolates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2004

M. Rosa HERMOSA
Affiliation:
Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental lab 208, Avenida Campo Charro s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Emma KECK
Affiliation:
Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental lab 208, Avenida Campo Charro s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Isabel CHAMORRO
Affiliation:
Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental lab 208, Avenida Campo Charro s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Belén RUBIO
Affiliation:
Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental lab 208, Avenida Campo Charro s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Luis SANZ
Affiliation:
Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental lab 208, Avenida Campo Charro s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Juan A. VIZCAÍNO
Affiliation:
Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental lab 208, Avenida Campo Charro s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Isabel GRONDONA
Affiliation:
Newbiotechnic S.A. (NBT), Av. Américo Vespucio 69, 41092 Seville, Spain.
Enrique MONTE
Affiliation:
Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental lab 208, Avenida Campo Charro s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Genetic variability within 69 biocontrol isolates of Trichoderma, obtained from different geographical locations and culture collections and selected as biocontrol agents, was studied. Sequence data, obtained from the ITS1 region of rDNA and a fragment of the translation elongation factor 1 (tef1) gene, were used in a phylogenetic analysis. Phylograms showing similar topologies were generated using alignments containing the ITS1 region or a portion of the tef1 gene. 21 distinct ITS1 sequence types and 17 distinct tef1 sequence types were identified among the 69 isolates. More than 50% of the potential biocontrol strains were grouped within Trichoderma sect. Pachybasium; of these, 81% were grouped within the cluster that included the ex-type strains of T. harzianum and T. inhamatum, and 16% were grouped with T. virens. Within T. sect. Trichoderma, which included 36% of the 69 strains, 56% were grouped with T. asperellum, and 24% with T. viride, T. atroviride or T. koningii. Only 10% of the strains studied were located in T. sect. Longibrachiatum.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 2004

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