Angerer, 38, had unearthed a black truffle (the Tuber melanosporum variety, also known as the Périgord truffle, named after a region in France where they grow), and he believes it’s the first ...

An inspector approved by the regional federation of truffle harvesters smells a black truffles (tuber melanosporum), on December 23, 2018, during an inspection at a truffle market in Rognes ...

Some truffle producers in the eastern U.S. intending to grow European black truffles -scientific name, Tuber melanosporum -- are also accidentally cultivating winter truffles -- Tuber brumale -- a ...

This cultivated variety is the black Perigord truffle, or tuber melanosporum. These truffles are notoriously hard to farm, even in France, where Perigords originate.

Already, T. melanosporum is undergoing tough times. For reasons uncertain, the annual harvest has declined from more than 1,200 tons in 1900 to less than 100 tons today.

It was tuber magnatum pico. Italian scientists had tried and failed before—most recently, a mass program from the 1990s, for which they inoculated a half-million saplings with spores.

The combined effects of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Tuber melanosporum on the quality of Pinus halepensis seedlings. Mycorrhiza , 2011; 22 (6): 429 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-011-0420-0 Cite This Page : ...

Black truffles are most often associated with the European countryside. But as wild truffle habitats have declined, truffle farms in the U.S. are taking root. There are more than 100 truffle ...