Background: Tuber aestivum Vittad., known as black summer truffle, represents high-value food especially used garnishment in nouvelle cuisine. The aim of this study was to investigate on the viable microbial populations associated with T. ascomata collected different sites Sicily and one locality Umbria (Italy).
 Methods: ripe truffles were from Central Italy. Cell densities spoilage bacte...

desert truffles, hypogeous pezizales (ascomycota), are difficult to identify due to evolutionary convergence of morphological characters among taxa that share a similar habitat and mode of spore dispersal. in this paper we document the presence of picoa lefebvrei (pat.) maire (=phaeangium lefebvrei) in iran and use phylogenetic analysis of the its and 28s rdna to show that this species belon...

abstract- desert truffles are hypogeous ascomyceteous ectomycorrhizal fungi, occurring in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. a pcr-based method was developed for the identification of 3 major desert truffles of iran: terfezia claveryi, tirmania pinoyi and tirmania nivea based on internal transcribed spacers of rdna. two specific pcr primers were designed for t. claveryi, 4 for t. pinoyi, and 2 for ...

terfezia, picoa and tirmania, so called desert truffles, are mycorrhizal fungi mostly endemic to arid and semi-arid areas of the mediterranean region, where they are associated with helianthemum and carexspecies. the aim of this work was to study the identification, molecular analysis, distribution and hosts of these pezizalean hypogeous fungi in iran. among the specimens, terfezia claveryi, ti...