Phenotypic and genotypic diversity among strains of Aureobasidium pullulans in comparison with related species.

Intra-specific diversity of 200 Aureobasidium pullulans strains isolated from different sources and their relatives Kabatiella lini CBS 125.21 T and Hormonema prunorum CBS 933.72 T were studied by assessment of macromorphological, and physiological tests, sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis technique (SDS-PAGE) of whole-cell proteins as well as enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-, repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP)- and BOX-PCR techniques (collectively known as rep-PCR).