PriMicro Database

For classification, identification and molecular phylogenetic analyses of microbes

Primer Detail

Primer name
ITS1F
ITS1-F
ITS1-f
Gene name
ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 rRNA gene (ITS)
Primer sequence (5'-3')
CTTGGTCATTTAGAGGAAGTAA
Direction
F
Category
specific primer
Target
Fungi
Paired primer
NLB3 LB-W LA-W LR5-Tom LR5-Seb LR3-Tul
Reference
M gardes and TD Bruns (1993) ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes - application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts. Molecular Ecology 2: 113-118.
Literature
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Prachand Shrestha, Timothy M. Szaro, Thomas D. Bruns and John W. Taylor (2011) Systematic search for cultivatable fungi that best deconstruct cell walls of Miscanthus and sugarcane in the field. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77(15): 5490-5504.
James Borneman and R. Jack Hartin (2000) PCR primers that amplify fungal rRNA genes from environmental samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66(10): 4356-4360.
Kendall J Martin and Paul T Rygiewicz (2005) Fungal-specific PCR primers developed for analysis of the ITS region of environmental DNA extracts. BMC Microbiology 5: 28e.
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Tina C. Summefield and Julian J. Eaton-Rye (2006) Pseudocyphellaria crocata, P. neglecta and P. perpetua from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are a phylogenetic species and share cyanobiont. New Phytologist 170: 597-607.
Myllys, L., Lohtander, K. and Tehler, A (2001) β-tublin, ITS and group I intron sequences challenge the species pair concept in Physcia aipolia and P. caesia. Mycologia 93: 335-343.
Leena Myllys, Katileena Lohtander, Mari Källersjö and Anders Tehler (1999) Sequence insertion and ITS data provide congruent information in Roccella canariensis and R. tuberculata (Arthoniales, Euascomycetes) phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12: 295-309.
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Larena I, Salazar O, González V, Julián MC and Rubio V (1999) Design of a primer for ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer with enhanced specificity for ascomycetes. Journal of Biotechnology 75: 187-194.
Dirk Redecker (2000) Specific PCR primers to identify arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi within colonized roots. Mycorrhiza 10: 73-80.
Dirk Redecker, Joseph B. Morton and Thomas D. Bruns (2000) Ancestral lineages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomales). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14: 276-284.
Martin I. Bidartondo, Dirk Redecker, Isabelle Hijri, Andres Wiemken, Thomas D. Bruns, Laura Domínguez, Alicia Sérsic, Jonathan R. Leake and David J. Read (2002) Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 419: 389-392.
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BS Weir, PR Johnston and U Damm (2012) The Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex. Studies in Mycology 73: 115-180.
Emilie F Fradin, Ahmed Abd-El-Haliem, Laura Masini, Grardy CM van den Berg, Matthieu HAJ Joosten and Bart PHJ Thomma (2011) Interfamily transfer of tomato Ve1 mediates Verticillium resistance in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 156: 2255-2265.
Guido Schnabel, Joshua S Ash and Patricia K Bryson (2005) Identification and characterization of Armillaria tabescens from the southeastern United States. Mycological Research 109: 1208-1222.
A Shi, SK Kantartzi, MT Mmbaga, P Chen, F Mrema and E Nnodu (2008) PCR-based markers for detection of Colletotrichum acutatum and C. gloeosporioides in flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Australasian Plant Pathology 37: 65-68.
U Damm, PF Cannon, JHC Woudenberg and PW Crous (2012) The Colletotrichum acutatum species complex. Studies in Mycology 73: 37-113.
Tony Vancov and Brad Keen (2009) Amplification of soil fungal community DNA using the ITS86F and ITS4 primers. FEMS Microbiology Letters 296: 91-96.
Toju H, Tanabe AS, Yamamoto S and Sato H (2012) High-coverage ITS primers for the DNA-based identification of ascomycetes and basidiomycetes in environmental samples. PLoS One 6: e40863.
Leho Tederso, Teele Jairus, Bryony M Horton, Kessy Abarenkov, Triin Suvi, Irja Saar and Urmas Kõljalg (2008) Strong host preference of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Tasmanian wet sclerophyll forest as revealed by DNA barcoding and taxon-specific primers. New Phytologist 180: 479-490.
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