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ABSTRACT
Cladosporium species are ubiquitous in various environments but are hitherto rarely isolated from soil. In the present study, six new Cladosporium species inhabiting the plateau soils of China are described as C. neopsychrotolerans, C. paralimoniforme, C. prolongatum, C. sinuatum, C. tianshanense, and C. verruculosum. These species are phylogenetically distinct and morphologically different from known species. This study increased the number of species classified in the C. cladosporioides and C. herbarum complexes and revealed Chinese plateau soil as a rich niche of Cladosporium species diversity.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to Dr. T. Liu of Institute of Plant Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences and Drs. Y. Hao and J. Zhuang of Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for the collection of soil samples. This study was supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, No. 2013AA102803), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (No. 31225026), and the China Modern Agriculture Research System (No. CARS-42).
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Lei Cai
Rui Ma and Qian Chen contributed equally to this paper.
Bin Yao
Rui Ma and Qian Chen contributed equally to this paper.