About the Authors

Seung-Beom Hong

Affiliation Korean Agricultural Culture Collection, Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA, Suwon, Korea

Mina Lee

Affiliation Korean Agricultural Culture Collection, Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA, Suwon, Korea

Dae-Ho Kim

Affiliation Korean Agricultural Culture Collection, Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA, Suwon, Korea

Janos Varga

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Jens C. Frisvad

Affiliation Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Giancarlo Perrone

Affiliation Institute of Sciences of Food Production, CNR, Via Amendola, Bari, Italy

Katsuya Gomi

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioindustrial Genomics, Department of Bioindustrial Informatics and Genomics, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan

Osamu Yamada

Affiliation Department National Research Institute of Brewing, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Masayuki Machida

Affiliations Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Higashi 1-1-1, Ibaraki, Japan, Genome Biotechnology Laboratory, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Yatsukaho 3-1, Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan

Jos Houbraken

Affiliation CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Robert A. Samson

r.samson@cbs.knaw.nl

Affiliation CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH RAS. Performed the experiments: SH ML DK JV JF GP RAS. Analyzed the data: SH ML DK JV JF GP KG OY MM JH RAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH ML DK JV JF GP KG OY MM JH RAS. Wrote the paper: SH ML DK JV JF GP KG OY MM JH RAS. Supply strains: SH JF JH RAS. Morphological data: SH JH RAS. Isolation and analysis molecular sequencing: SH ML DK JV JF GP KG OY MM JH. Extraction and analysis of extrolites: JF. Supplying data culture collections SH GP KG OY MM JH RAS. Supplying literature data: SH KG OY MM RAS.