TABLE 4.

Species of fungi with 18S-rDNA sequences most similar to the EF4-EF3 clones from the wheat rhizosphere^a

Clone no.	Fungal taxa with most similar sequence	Fragment size (bp)	Identity	Results of Chimera Checkb	Accession no.
Ascomycota
Euascomycetes
UUF146	Symbiotaphrina kochii	680c	0.984	N
Erysiphales
UUF115	Blumeria graminis	500	0.872	N	AF096354
Basidiomycota
Hymenomycetes
Stereales
UUF101	Athelia bombacina	513	0.809	N	AF096351
Tremellales
UUF103	Bullera crocea	504	0.839	N	AF096352
UUF136	Bullera crocea	510	0.864	N	AF096364
UUF121	Bullera crocea	510	0.820	N	AF096358
UUF143	Bullera crocea	508	0.867	N	AF096366
UUF120	Filobasidium floriforme	509	0.837	N	AF096357
UUF124	Cryptococcus albidus	510	0.825	N	AF096360
UUF149	Sclerotium sp. BSC-97	728c	0.902	N
Zygomycota
Zygomycetes
Mucorales
UUF112	Mortierella polycephala	515	0.844	N	AF096353
UUF116	Mortierella polycephala	509	0.854	N	AF096355
UUF119	Mortierella polycephala	503	0.779	P	AF096356
UUF123	Mortierella polycephala	503	0.844	N	AF096359
UUF125	Mortierella polycephala	514	0.970	N	AF096361
UUF127	Mortierella polycephala	503	0.839	N	AF096362
UUF128	Mortierella polycephala	504	0.767	N	AF096363
UUF142	Mortierella polycephala	507	0.834	N	AF096365
UUF144	Mortierella polycephala	508	0.852	N	AF096367
UUF147	Mortierella polycephala	507	0.844	N	AF096368
UUF150	Mortierella polycephala	514	0.968	N	AF096369
Chytridiomycota
Chytridiomycetes
UUF130	Spizellomyces acuminatus	739c	0.935	N

^aSequences were compared to those in the RDP database, containing 10,723 entries. 

^bP, possible chimeric sequence; N, not likely a chimeric sequence. 

^cSequence were determined in one direction only and not submitted to NCBI.