PYCC 10036
1 - Taxon name
Starmerella fangiana
2 - Classification
Ascomycota
3 - Strain (species name) changes
NA
4 - Status of the strain
Type strain of Starmerella fangiana
5 - Basis for identification
Molecular (D1D2 & ITS)
6 - Identified by
Wei et al. 2024
7 - Original strain number
QFe-8
8 - Accession numbers in other collections
CGMCC 2.7773; JCM 36912
9 - Biological Safety Level
BSL-1
10 - Access and Benefit Sharing (CBD, Nagoya protocol)
No known ABS restrictions
11 - PYCC strain status
Open
12 - Mediterranean strain
No
13 - Substrate of isolation
dusts on windows of Daqu-making workshops
14 - Category of substrate
Other
15 - Locality
Zunyi City, Guizhou Province
16 - Country of origin
China
18 - Sample Collected by
Collected in August 2023
19 - Isolated by and date of isolation
Yu-Hua Wei et. al Y
20 - Isolation details
PD with chloramphenicol
21 - Deposited by
Ana Pontes, Oct. 2024
22 - History
A. Pontes > PYCC
23 - Preservation
Glass beads; 20% Glycerol; -150C
24 - Price per culture
85€
25 - Remarks
na
26 - Medium for growth
YMA
DNA Sequence
Region
26S
Sequence Title
PP786676
Gene Bank Url
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PP786676
DNA Sequence
Region
ITS
Sequence Title
PP786670
Gene Bank Url
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PP786670
Title
Starmerella fangiana f.a. sp. nov., a new ascomycetous yeast species from Daqu-making environment and other sources

Author

Yu-Hua Wei, Hai-Yan Zhu, Zhang Wen, Liang-Chen Guo, Mei Bai, Di-Qiang Wang, Wei Huang, Li-Li Jiang, Napapohn Kajadpai, Nantana Srisuk, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai

Abstract

In the survey of yeast diversity in high-temperature Daqu, which is a fermentation starter for Chinese sauce-flavoured Baijiu, six yeast strains representing one novel species of the genus Starmerella were isolated from samples of Daqu and surrounding environments collected in Zunyi city, Guizhou Province, China. Phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and the D1/D2 domains of the large subunit rRNA gene indicate that these six strains are conspecific with three other strains isolated from flowers and duckweed collected in Samoa, India and Thailand. The representative strain QFC-8 of the new species differs from the closet species Starmerella caucasica resolved by the D1/D2 sequence analysis by 13 (3.1 %, 12 substitutions and 1 gap) and 40 (10.3 %, 9 substitutions and 31 gaps) mismatches in the D1/D2 domain and ITS region, respectively. The results suggest that the novel group represents an undescribed species in the genus Starmerella, for which the name Starmerella fangiana sp. nov. is proposed. The holotype strain is CGMCC 2.7773.

Publication Date

Link to Publication

https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006581
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