Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Makiko Watanabe, Keisuke Obase, and Kazuhiko Narisawa
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Fungal Communities of Sclerotia Grains from Forest Soils . . . . . .
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Kazuhiko Narisawa, Anzilni Amasya, Yaya Sasaki Nonoyama,
and Keisuke Obase
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Relationships Between Soil Mesofauna, Ectomycorrhizal Fungi,
and Sclerotia in Forest Soils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Anzilni Amasya and Kazuhiko Narisawa
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Sclerotia Grains as Bacterial Carriers in Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Yaya Sasaki Nonoyama and Kazuhiko Narisawa
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Chemical Characterization of Sclerotia Grains Collected
from a Volcanic Ash Soil Profile in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Bolormaa Oyuntsetseg, Nobuo Sakagami, Khulan Nyamsanjaa,
and Makiko Watanabe
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Origin of Soil Polysaccharides, and Ectomycorrhizal Fungal
Sclerotia as Sources of Forest Soil Polysaccharides . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Shigetoshi Murayama and Yuki Sugiura
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Dating of Sclerotia Grains in Andosol Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Makiko Watanabe, Nobuo Sakagami, and Kiminori Tonosaki
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Micromorphological Features of Sclerotia Grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Makiko Watanabe and Akira Genseki
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Spatial Distribution of Sclerotia Grains in Forest Soils, Northern
and Central Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Nobuo Sakagami and Sayuri Kato
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