Tarbiat Modares University Journal of Crop Protection 2251-9041 13 3 2024 09 01 New records of Eucalyptus endophytic fungi for the funga of Iran 281 291 1672 10.48311/jcp.2024.1672 EN Parmida Aleahmad Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran 33916-53755, Iran. Leila Ebrahimi Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran 33916-53755, Iran. Naser Safaie Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. 0000-0001-6065-7010 Hassan Reza Etebarian Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran 33916-53755, Iran. Journal Article Fungal endophytes are defined as microorganisms with the ability to colonize plants asymptomatically throughout or at least a significant part of their life cycle, thereby establishing a plant-fungal association. In the present study, 44 plant samples, including healthy and symptomless fruit, leaf and branch samples, were collected from Eucalyptus trees located in Tehran, Qom, Alborz, Esfahan, and Mazandaran provinces to isolate and identify the endophytic fungi. Among 170 fungal isolates from collected plant samples, two species were new based on morphological and molecular phylogeny of the ITS rDNA for the Funga of Iran, including Phaeophleospora eucalypticola and Pseudosydowia eucalypti. Furthermore, both species are reported for the first time as endophytic fungi of eucalyptus trees in the world. https://jcp.modares.ac.ir/article_1672_2451041557a22145b3701b0184109cab.pdf