Bacterial Communities in the Fruiting Bodies and Background Soils of the White Truffle Tuber magnatum.

ABSTRACT: Tuber magnatum Picco is a greatly appreciated truffle species mainly distributed in Italy. Its price and characteristics mostly depend on its geographical origin. Truffles represent a fundamental step of the life cycle of Tuber species promoting spore dissemination. They consist of two main parts, gleba, the inner part, and peridium, which is in direct contact with ground soil. Within the truffle and around in the growing soil, both the occurrence and abundance of different microbial species seem to play an essential role in truffle production. The development of the next-generation sequencing (NGS) based technology has greatly improved to deepen the role of the composition of microbial communities, thus improving the knowledge of the existing relationships between microbial

SUBMITTER: Sillo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9149314 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature