The desert truffle is a wild mushroom, also referred to as Kamah or Fagaa. rich source of polysaccharides that have medicinal, antitumoral, antibacterial, and immune-stimulant effects. Studies hypogeous fungi, especially truffles, recently entered traditional studies epigeous higher Basidiomycetes. Based on the tasty obtained from Hafr Al-Batin Governorate, Saudi Arabia, potential antimicrobial...

There are important economic and humanitarian applications for systems that can find the source of an odour or volatile chemical buried under the ground. These applications cover the spectrum from harvesting truffles, to finding the location of leaking gas pipes and land mines. This paper presents current progress of the RoboMole project which aims to develop robotic systems that can burrow thr...

Introduction: Fungi are placed in the kingdom fungi according to the five concept of Whitteker .Microbiologist use the term fungus. Eukaryotic, achlorophyllous,spore bearing organism with absorptive nutrition that reproduce both sexually and asexually and usually have filamentous structure whose cells wall generally contain cellulose. Fungi reproduce via spores, which are often produced on spec...

In this paper volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from Tuber magnatum fruiting bodies were analyzed using a PTR-TOF-MS instrument. The aim was to characterize the VOC's profile of the fruiting bodies and identify if any VOCs were specific to a season and geographical areas. Multiple factorial analysis (MFA) was carried out on the signals obtained by MS. Experiments using ITS region sequencing pro...

The ethnopharmaceutical approach is important for the discovery and development of natural product research and requires a deep understanding not only of biometabolites discovery and profiling but also of cultural and social science. For millennia, epigeous macrofungi (mushrooms) and hypogeous macrofungi (truffles) were considered as precious food in many cultures based on their high nutritiona...

For centuries, macrofungi have been used as food and medicine in different parts of the world. This is mainly attributed to their nutritional value as a potential source of carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, and minerals. In addition, they also include many bioactive metabolites which make mushrooms and truffles common components in folk medicine, especially in Africa, the Middle East, China...

Morphological delimitation of Asian black truffles, including Tuber himalayense, T. indicum, T. sinense, T. pseudohimalayense, T. formosanum and T. pseudoexcavatum, has remained problematic and even phylogenetic analyses have been controversial. In this study, we combined five years of field investigation in China with morphological study and DNA sequences analyses (ITS, LSU and β-tubulin) of 1...