Yield and different nut parameters were measured for two growing seasons on mature (28–29 years) trees of 11 pecan cultivars grown in an experimental orchard located the Puglia Region, Southeastern Italy. ‘Shoshoni’ ‘Shawnee’ seedlings inoculated with three truffle species (Tuber borchii—known as ‘whitish truffle’, T. aestivum—called ‘summer melanosporum—the common ‘Black truffle’) investigated...

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...

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...

John Rawls rejects prejusticial conceptions of distributive desert on the grounds that such conceptions are immoral and impractical. Prejusticial understandings of desert claim that desert can be understood prior to and independently of justice in social institutions, and take legitimate desert claims to provide standards for evaluating social arrangements. Some philosophers have interpreted Ra...