“…Despite the fact that a high rDNA sequence polymorphism was proved within individuals (e.g., Hijri et al, 1999;Lanfranco et al, 1999;Jansa et al, 2002;Thiéry et al, 2012), other researchers (Krüger et al, 2009(Krüger et al, , 2012Stockinger et al, 2010), similarly to our findings, proved that the combination of the highly polymorphic ITS region with variable SSU and LSU regions can be used to achieve phylogenetic species-and strain-level resolution in AMF. In this regard, Farmer et al (2007) could discriminate isolates of R. irregularis BEG141 and C. etunicatum BEG168, using only the variable domains of the LSU of ribosomal RNA gene, whereas more recent studies proved that other molecular markers (i.e., mtLSU, RPB1, and mt cox3-rnl intergenic mtDNA region) are even more efficient in the discrimination of foreign AM fungal isolates in the field (Sýkorová et al, 2012;Buysens et al, 2017;Kokkoris et al, 2019;Thioye et al, 2019). Very recently, to overcome the difficulties of the lack of consensus barcoding region for the determination of AM fungal taxa, Kolaříková et al (2021) developed a fine and promising approach to sequence an AM fungal marker within the ribosome-encoding operon (rDNA) which covers all the three widely applied variable molecular markers (SSU, ITS, and LSU).…”