Picoa species are hypogeous desert truffles, which can be found in semi-arid ranges of North Africa, West Asian, South of Europe and Middle East, including Iran (Moreno et al. 2000, Jamali & Banihashemi 2012, 2013). Picoa species form symbiosis mainly on roots of annual and perennial herbaceous plants of the Helianthemum, including H. ledifolium and H. salicifolium var. salicifolium (Jamali & B...

Tuber floridanum is the first truffle species reported in Brazil and little known about its nutritional properties ecology. Therefore, this study aimed to (1) determine T. aroma (2) analyze cultivation fruiting conditions, including potential crop pests market value. Fruiting bodies of showed a slightly ellipsoid shape smooth shallow groovy surface. The mass ascocarps ranged from 0.13 g 15.95 g...

The factors that vary the aroma of Tuber magnatum fruiting bodies are poorly understood. study determined headspace composition, sensory profiles, maturity and bacterial communities from T. originating Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, tested if truffle is dependent on provenance body volatiles explained by and/or communities. Headspace volatile profiles were using gas chromatography–mass spectr...

BACKGROUND To identify the incidence rate of spontaneous dyskinesia (SD) and tardive dyskinesia (TD) in a general population and to examine the association between dykinesia and potential risk factors (exposure to metoclopramide [MCP], antipsychotic drugs, and history of diabetes and psychoses). METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted for the years 2001 through 2010, based on medic...

Truffles are hypogeous ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi belonging to the genus Tuber. Although outplanting of truffle-inoculated host plants has enabled the realization of productive orchards, truffle cultivation is not yet standardized. Therefore, monitoring the distribution of fungal species in different truffle fields may help us to elucidate the factors that shape microbial communities and influe...

—Prescribed burning and mechanical thinning are used to manage fuels within many western North American forest ecosystems, but few studies have examined the relative impacts of these treatments on forest wildlife. We sampled northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus) and microhabitat variables in burned, thinned and control stands of mixed-conifer forest of the southern Sierra Nevada at the...

It is now a decade and half since the UK’s Conservative Minister of Agriculture, John Gummer, ceremoniously fed his four-year old daughter Cordelia a hamburger to demonstrate the safety of British Beef. Since then 137 British citizens have died from a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), presumably from eating beef infected with bovine spongiform encepholapathy (BSE)—popularly known as ...