Taxonomic reclassification of Candida stellata DBVPG 3827.
We present data demonstrating that the strain DBVPG 3827 does not belong to C. stellata. From the results of physiological analysis, electrophoretic karyotyping, the PCR-RFLP of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region and the nucleotide sequence of the D1/D2 domain of the 26S rDNA it can be concluded that DBVPG 3827 is a strain of Starmerella bombicola. This finding, and the recent observation that C. stellata can easily be confused with C. zemplinina in tests of conventional taxonomy, urges a critical revision of the enological role(s) attributed by researchers to C. stellata.
Sipiczki
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Department of Genetics, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
Ciani
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Csoma
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