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Sporormia fimetaria

Sporormia fimetaria (Rabenh.) De Not., Mém. R. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2 10: 342 (1849).

≡ Sphaeria fimetaria Rabenh., Klotzschii Herb. Viv. Mycol., Edn 1: no. 1733 (1845).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 144802; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11725, Fig. 1

Description: see Hyde et al. (2013).

Material considered: see Hyde et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Sporormia fimetaria (RO, type as Hormospora fimetaria). a Appearance of ascomata on the host surface. b, c Asci. d, e Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 0.5 mm, b–d = 20 μm, e = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Shrestha et al. (2001) reported paclitaxel from endophytic Sporormia minima which can be used in chemotherapy medication (Swamy et al. 2022).

 

Biochemical importance of the genus, chemical diversity or applications

Sporormia produces several chemicals. McGahren et al. (1968) reported Dihydroisocoumarins from Sporormia. McGahren et al. (1969) reported chlorinated cyclopentenone fungitoxic metabolites from S. affinis. The metabolite 2-trans-allyl-5-chloro-1-hydroxy-4-oxo-2-cyclopentene-1-carboxylic acid methyl ester was reported from coprophilous S. affinis (Kabanyane et al. 2000).

 

There are 87 Sporormia epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Preussia and Sporormiella. Sporormia has wide host distribution such as Brassica sp. (Brassicaceae), Diplotaxis erucoides (Brassicaceae), Juncus roemerianus (Juncaceae), Malus sylvestris (Rosaceae), Millingtonia hortensis (Bignoniaceae), Musa sp. (Musaceae), Oryza sativa (Poaceae) and Sorghum sp. (Poaceae). Sporormia is distributed in Asia (India), Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago), Europe (Spain, United Kingdom), South America (Brazil) and the United States (Florida, Kansas, Washington).

 

References

Ahmed SI, Cain RF. 1972 – Revision of the genera Sporormia and Sporormiella.  Canadian Journal of Botany 50, 419–477.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Kabanyane S, Decken A, Yu CM, Strunz G. 2000 – A new short synthetic approach to chlorocyclopentenones related to cryptosporiopsin via a ring expansion strategy: First synthesis of a fungitoxic metabolite from Sporormia affinis. Canadian Journal of Chemistry-revue Canadienne De Chimie 78, 270–274.

McGahren WJ, Mitscher LA. 1968 – Dihydroisocoumarins from a Sporormia fungus. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 33, 1577–1580.

McGahren WJ, van den Hende JH, Mitscher LA. 1969 – Chlorinated cyclopentenone fungitoxic metabolites from the fungus, Sporormia affinis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 91, 157–162.

Shrestha K, Strobel G, Shrivastava S, Gewali M. 2001 – Evidence for Paclitaxel from Three New Endophytic Fungi of Himalayan Yew of Nepal. Planta medica 67, 374–376.

Swamy MK, Das T, Nandy S, Mukherjee A, Pandey DK, Dey A. 2022 – Endophytes for the production of anticancer drug, paclitaxel. In: Swamy MK, Pullaiah T & Chen ZS (Eds.), Paclitaxel (pp. 203–228), Academic Press.

 

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