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Yeasts constituted a major portion of the mycoflora in a variety of forest soils. Numbers ofLipomyces were highest in the mineral soil and very low in the L horizon or upper portion of the F horizon. It is felt that the form of nitrogen in the soil plays a major role in the development of large populations ofLipomyces in soil. Yeasts (excludingLipomyces) were most numerous in the L horizon and mineral soil and least common in the F horizon. Yeast cells acounted for a smaller percentage of the total fungal propagules on hardwood litter than on conifer litter.
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Paper No. 3740 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina State University Agr. Exp. Sta., Raleigh, N.C. 27607.
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Danielson, R.M., Jurgensen, M.F. The propagule density of Lipomyces and other yeasts in Forest Soils. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 51, 191–198 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02141110
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