Desert truffles belonging to Terfezia are well known mycorrhizal members of the mycota of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. We aimed to test (i) whether the morphological criteria of Terfezia species regularly collected in Spain enable their separation and (ii) whether the previously hypothesized edaphic/biotic specificity of one group could be confirmed by study of a larger number ...

The Truffles file system supports file sharing between arbitrary users at arbitrary sites connected by a network. Truffles is an interesting example of a service of the future that will automatically allow users to collaborate with other users anywhere in the world in ways not currently possible. These services, and Truffles in particular, have the potential of greatly increasing the workload o...

Desert truffles are edible hypogeous (forming fruit bodies below ground) fungi that grow in semi-arid and arid areas. They highly valued for both their culinary medicinal properties the Mediterranean basin, Middle East Gulf form mycorrhizae mostly with plants belonging to Cistaceae family, mainly Helianthemum species. These still, usually, collected from wild, but loss of habitats due urbanizat...

Truffles is a system meant to address some of the major issues that still make it difficult to share files between users at different sites. In particular, it addresses the problems associated with secure file sharing, and the problems of high administrative overhead. Truffles will combine facilities of the Ficus file system and TIS/PEM, a privacy enhanced mail system, to make file sharing cons...

• Aroma variability in truffles has been attributed to maturation (Tuber borchii), linked to environmental factors (Tuber magnatum), but the involvement of genetic factors has been ignored. We investigated aroma variability in Tuber uncinatum, a species with wide distribution. Our aim was to assess aroma variability at different spatial scales (i.e. trees, countries) and to quantify how aroma w...

-gporocarps of hypogeous mycorrhizal fungi (truffles) are the major food of northern flying squirrels (Gluucomys satinus). The two subspecies of northern flying squirrels that occur in the southern Appalachians, G. s. colmatus and G. s. fuscus, are endangered species which are primarily found in the ecotone between high-elevation spruce-fir and northern hardwood forests. Our objective was to de...