Mycelia of monoconidial isolates of (Foa) from asparagus and
carnation (Fod) were produced on PDA plates incubated at 25 ◦C
for 7 days. One hundred mg mycelium of each isolate were
scraped with a scalpel, powdered in liquid nitrogen and the
DNA was purified using the Dneasy® Plant Mini Kit (Qiagen,
Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Quality and concentration of DNA samples were determined
using a NanoDrop 1000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific Wilmington DE, USA). Fungal isolates were molecularly
analyzed using the sequence of the translation elongation factor 1 (EF1 ) gene. Primers used for DNA amplification and
sequencing were EF1: TGGGTAAGGAA/GGACAAGAC and EF2:
GGAA/GGTACCAGTC/GATCATGTT) (O’Donnell et al., 1998).