Root Fungal Endophytes Enhance Heavy-Metal Stress Tolerance of Clethra barbinervis Growing Naturally at Mining Sites via Growth Enhancement, Promotion of Nutrient Uptake and Decrease of Heavy-Metal Concentration

• Keiko Yamaji ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keiko Yamaji, Yumiko Watanabe, Hayato Masuya

  * E-mail: yamaji.keiko.fp@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2875-5619

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• Yumiko Watanabe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keiko Yamaji, Yumiko Watanabe, Hayato Masuya

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Hayato Masuya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keiko Yamaji, Yumiko Watanabe, Hayato Masuya

  Affiliation Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Arisa Shigeto ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Hiroshi Yui ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Toshikatsu Haruma

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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