Darksidea alpha
Darksidea alpha D.G. Knapp, Kovács, J.Z. Groenew. & Crous, in Knapp, Kovács, Zajta, Groenewald & Crous, Persoonia 35: 96 (2015).
Index Fungorum number: IF 810761 ; Facesoffungi number: FoF 09672 , Fig.1
Description: see Knapp et al. (2015).
Material examined: see Knapp et al. (2015).
Fig. 1 Darksidea alpha (CBS 135650; redrawn from Knapp et al. 2015). a Ascomata. b, c Immature asci. d Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 100 µm, b–d = 10 µm.
Importance and distribution
Species of Darksidea are endophytic. They have the ability to grow inside the host plant, without any side effects on the plant tissues (Al-Ani 2019). They may facilitate plant growth and stress tolerance in stressful ecosystems (Li et al. 2018). Darksidea comprises six species known from two host plants in Poaceae. Darksidea seems to be host specific. Darksidea has been reported only from Europe (Hungary).
References
Al-Ani LK. 2019 – The Importance of Endophytic Fungi from the Medicinal Plant: Diversity, Natural Bioactive Compounds, and Control of Plant Pathogens. In: D., Egamberdieva, A., Tiezzi (eds) Medically Important Plant Biomes: Source of Secondary Metabolites. Microorganisms for Sustainability 15, Springer, Singapore.
Knapp DG, Kovacs GM, Zajta E, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2015 – Dark septate endophytic pleosporalean genera from semiarid areas. Persoonia 35, 87–100.
Li X, He X, Hou L, Ren Y, Wang S, Su F. 2018 – Dark septate endophytes isolated from a xerophyte plant promote the growth of Ammopiptanthus mongolicus under drought condition. Scientific Reports 8, 7896.
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