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Truffles are not simply adapted to the soils in which they live. New research we have published in Plant and Soil examines evidence that several Tuber species actively modify their edaphic environment, extending the idea of ecological niche construction from strongly calcareous Mediterranean soils to carbonate-poor and even highly acidic habitats.
Black truffle plantations are a distinctive Mediterranean agroforestry system: they produce a high-value fungal crop while potentially delivering regulating and cultural ecosystem services. A new Spanish study examines how people directly involved in the truffle sector prioritise these services, and what they perceive as the main barriers to cultivation and incentives for div...
Truffle-associated bacteria are not distributed uniformly between fruiting bodies and their surrounding soils. Mi and colleagues examined this pattern in natural populations of Tuber indicum from the Nujiang River Basin in southwestern China, comparing two habitats with different host trees and soil conditions.
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