In the laboratory, soil particles were carefully removed from the fruiting bodies. Approximately 5 g of raw fruiting bodies from each sample was stored in a separate plastic bag at −82 °C. Prior to analyses, the frozen samples were freeze-dried (Finn-Aqua Lyovac GT 2) and pulverized with liquid nitrogen.
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