Table 3.
Taxonomic identification of OTUs from the cultured endophytes from site III using ITS sequences. The sequences were compared using BLAST through the UNITE database. For a more detailed examination of the identification see Supplementary Table S3. 12 cultures could not be identified because no DNA was extracted and for 27 cultures no ITS sequence was amplified so these cultures were categorised as individual OTUs. Names of organisms are given according to Species Fungorum (http://www.indexfungorum.org/; accessed on 8 March 2018 to 3 July 2018).
| OTU | Sequence(s) | Class | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Dothideomycetes | Clohesyomyces sp. |
| 2 | 1 | Dothideomycetes sp. 1 | |
| 3 | 8 | Dothideomycetes sp. 2 | |
| 4 | 1 | Dothideomycetes sp. 3 | |
| 5 | 1 | Dothideomycetes sp. 4 | |
| 6 | 1 | Dothideomycetes sp. 5 | |
| 7 | 1 | Dothideomycetes sp. 6 | |
| 8 | 15 | Dothideomycetes sp. 7 | |
| 9 | 6 | Epicoccum nigrum | |
| 10 | 1 | Epicoccum sp. | |
| 11 | 2 | Ophiosphaerella korrea | |
| 12 | 1 | Ophiosphaerella sp. 1 | |
| 13 | 4 | Periconia sp. 1 | |
| 14 | 1 | Periconia sp. 2 | |
| 15 | 1 | Pleosporaceae sp. | |
| 16 | 2 | Leotiomycetes | Glarea sp. |
| 17 | 34 | Leptodontidium sp. | |
| 18 | 2 | Pezizomycetes | Pyronema domesticum |
| 19 | 7 | Sordariomycetes | Chaetosphaeriaceae sp. |
| 20 | 1 | Diaporthe sp. | |
| 21 | 2 | Falciphora sp. | |
| 22 | 1 | Gaeumannomyces graminis | |
| 23 | 2 | Lasiosphaeriaceae sp. | |
| 24 | 1 | Sordariomycetes sp. 1 | |
| 25 | 1 | Sordariomycetes sp. 2 | |
| 26 | 2 | Sordariomycetes sp. 3 | |
| 27 | 1 | Xylariaceae sp. | |
| 28–54 | 27 | Fungus sp. 28–54 | |
| 55–66 | 12 | Fungus sp. 55–66 |