PCR with primers targeting the first fungal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1) was performed (ITS1-18Sfw: 5′-GTA AAA GTC GTA ACA AGG TTT C-3′ and ITS1-5.8Srv: 5′-GTT CAA AGA YTC GAT GAT TCA C-3′) [10]. The ITS1 region was chosen over ITS2 in this study as the ...