Trichoderma gamsii  Samuels and Druzhin, 2006

GenBank Accession No. JX518936

Serial No. 21

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Taxonomy

Kingdom : Fungi

  Division : Ascomycota

    Subdivision : Pezizomycotina

      Class : Sordariomycetes

        Subclass : Hypocreomycetidae

          Order : Hypocreales

            Family : Hypocreaceae

              Genus : Trichoderma

                Species : gamsii

                  Binomial Name : Trichoderma gamsii

                    Author : Samuels and Druzhin, 2006

Synonyms :
Not available

Telomorph :
Not available

Morphological characteristics
Colony colour : Dense white
Colony characteristics : At first yellow, then green, pustules cottony to dense, conidia forming abundantly conspicuous concentric rings.
Colony radius : > 45mm after 72 hrs.
Colony on PDA :Dense white mycelium covering 9 cm diameter petri plate, concentric rings
Hyphae : Forming mat like structure
Mycelia :Dense white mycelium covering the 9 cm diameter Petri plate.
Pigments : Sometimes with a pale yellow diffusing pigment.
Odour : Typically with a strong coconut-like odor detected
Microscopic characteristics
Conidiophore : Neither as extensive nor as uniformly branched
Phialides : Solitary phialides common, lageniform
Conidia : Smooth, ellipsoidal, warted, L/W 1.1-1.3
Chlamydospores : Chlamydospores typically abundant, subglobose, terminal on hyphae, (3.0-)8.5-12.0(-15.7) χ (3.0-)8.0-11.5(-15.5) μm.
Stromata : Not known
Ascospores : Not known
General characteristics
Main cell wall composition : Glucans, glycoprotien, chitin
Type of reproduction : Asexual (Herman et al. 2004).
Growth rate : Grow rapidly with colony radius 50-60 mm after 72 hrs.
Economic importance : Biological control against plant pathogens
Optimum temp. for growth rate : 25-300C
Optimum pH : 4.00 (Kredics et al. 2003).
Biochemical characteristics
Metabolite production : Peptaibols (Ghisalberti and Sivasithamparam, 1991)
Enzymatic production : Protease, chitinase

Morphology Conodiophore Spore

District : Tamenglong

Topography : Hill

Latitude : 24044'56.0''N

Longitude : 93078'01''E

Altitude (M) : 1260

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  • Ghisalberti and Sivasithamparam Soil Biol. Biochem. 1991 23: 1011-1020.
  • http://nt.ars-grin.gov/taxadescriptions/keys/FrameListAllTaxa.cfm?gen=Trichoderma
  • Mohamed S et al. Archives of Microbiology 1982 133: 330-331.



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