Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

THE FIRST REPORT OF AGARICALES FROM CAMARINES SUR, PHILIPPINES: SOME NEW RECORDS TOWARDS MUSHROOMS GENETIC CONSERVATION

Jerwin R. Undan, Mark Andre C. Malonzo, Larisa Mae A. Pajarillaga, Shiena Marie C. Fermin, Sofronio P. Kalaw, Angeles M. De Leon and Renato G. Reyes

Abstract

Mushrooms are well recognized in their importance in biotechnology such as medicine, enzyme production, and bioremediation. Despite their significance, there is limited work on the collection and proper identification of mushrooms in the country. These kinds of the initiative are recognized as the first activities towards species genetic conservation study as their occurrence was affected by the changing climate condition. In this study, mushrooms under order Agaricales or also known as gilled mushrooms from the Pili Camarines Sur, Philippines, were collected using purposive sampling. The collected samples were photo-documented, hand-picked and molecularly identified using the nrDNA-ITS gene marker. A total of 15 samples were collected and identified, out of this, nine mushroom species namely; the Leucoagaricus meleagris, Agrocybe retigera, Gymnopilus lepidotus, Gymnopilus dilepis, Crepidotus indicus, Filoboletus manipularis, Clavulinopsis sulcata, Marasmius occultatiformis and Gymnopus tamblinganensis have been suggested to be the first record and report of Agaricales in the Philippines based on nrDNA-ITS gene.