Three new species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of the genus Diversispora from maritime dunes of Poland

ABSTRACT

Three new species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of the genus Diversispora (phylum Glomeromycota) were described based on their morphology and molecular phylogeny. The phylogeny was inferred from the analyses of the partial 45S rDNA sequences (18S-ITS-28S) and the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (rpb1) gene. These species were associated in the field with plants colonizing maritime sand dunes of the Baltic Sea in Poland and formed mycorrhiza in single-species cultures.

KEYWORDS:

• Diversispora
• Glomeromycota
• molecular phylogeny
• morphology
• new primers
• nuc rDNA
• rpb1
• 3 new taxa

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the associate editor and the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their useful comments.

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Funding

The research was funded, in part, by the Institute of Botany at the Jagiellonian University, project no. N18/DBS/000002. Part of this work was supported by National Science Centre, Poland, grant no. 2020/37/N/NZ9/00509, as well as by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (CNPq), which provided research grants to B. T. Goto (proc. 311945/2019-8). We also thank Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte for covering the costs of B. T. Goto’s stay as collaborative research in West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin in the period from December 2019 to January 2020.