TY - JOUR
T1 - Four novel Talaromyces species isolated from leaf litter from Colombian Amazon rain forests
AU - Yilmaz, Neriman
AU - López-Quintero, Carlos A.
AU - Vasco-Palacios, Aída Marcela
AU - Frisvad, Jens C.
AU - Theelen, Bart
AU - Boekhout, Teun
AU - Samson, Robert A.
AU - Houbraken, Jos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, The Author(s).
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Various Talaromyces strains were isolated during a survey of fungi involved in leaf litter decomposition in tropical lowland forests in the Caquetá and Amacayacu areas of the Colombian Amazon. Four new Talaromyces species are described using a polyphasic approach, which includes phenotypic characters, extrolite profiles and phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) barcode, and beta-tubulin (BenA) and calmodulin (CaM) gene regions. Talaromyces amazonensis sp. nov., T. francoae sp. nov. and T. purgamentorum sp. nov. belong to Talaromyces section Talaromyces, and T. columbiensis sp. nov. is located in section Bacillispori. The new species produce several bioactive compounds: T. amazonensis produces the potential anticancer agents duclauxin, berkelic acid and vermicillin, and T. columbiensis produces the effective anticancer agent wortmannin (together with duclauxin). In addition to the new species, T. aculeatus and T. macrosporus were isolated during this study on leaf litter decomposition.
AB - Various Talaromyces strains were isolated during a survey of fungi involved in leaf litter decomposition in tropical lowland forests in the Caquetá and Amacayacu areas of the Colombian Amazon. Four new Talaromyces species are described using a polyphasic approach, which includes phenotypic characters, extrolite profiles and phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) barcode, and beta-tubulin (BenA) and calmodulin (CaM) gene regions. Talaromyces amazonensis sp. nov., T. francoae sp. nov. and T. purgamentorum sp. nov. belong to Talaromyces section Talaromyces, and T. columbiensis sp. nov. is located in section Bacillispori. The new species produce several bioactive compounds: T. amazonensis produces the potential anticancer agents duclauxin, berkelic acid and vermicillin, and T. columbiensis produces the effective anticancer agent wortmannin (together with duclauxin). In addition to the new species, T. aculeatus and T. macrosporus were isolated during this study on leaf litter decomposition.
KW - Bioactive compounds
KW - Phylogeny
KW - Plant biomass degradation
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1007/s11557-016-1227-3
DO - 10.1007/s11557-016-1227-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84992151848
SN - 1617-416X
VL - 15
SP - 1041
EP - 1056
JO - Mycological Progress
JF - Mycological Progress
IS - 10-11
ER -
