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Desert Truffles (Terfezia spp.) Breeding

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Desert truffles are hypogeous edible fungi that have been exclusively harvested in wild areas for hundreds of years. Land-use changes coupled with shifts in precipitation pattern and volume, as a result of climate change, have led to a decline in wild production of these fungi. Due to their high nutritional value, as well as rising market prices, efforts were stepped toward domestication more than 20 years ago. The present chapter describes the achievements made to understand the biology and diversity of these desert truffles which have helped to make this resource more sustainable. Most efforts to domesticate this natural resource have begun primarily with Terfezia claveryi Chatin. Biotechnological processes for mycorrhizal plant production as well as plantation management practices are analyzed with the experience accumulated to date. Terfezia cultivation is a totally organic crop, with minimum water irrigation, without the consumption of fertilizers or phytosanitary products and using native fungal and plant species. Thus, the longstanding tradition of desert truffle harvesting looks to the future, by adapting its domestication to modern agriculture.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been partially funded by projects 20866/PI/18 (FEDER and Programa Regional de Fomento de la Investigación -Plan de Actuación 2019- de la Fundación Séneca, Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología of the Region of Murcia, Spain) and CGL2016-78946-R (AEI/FEDER, UE). Authors thank Francisco González and Paco de Lara for providing the crop data of their desert truffle plantations and Paco de Lara for photos for Fig. 13.3c, d, e.

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    Asunción Morte, Francisco Arenas, José E. Marqués-Gálvez, Ángel L. Guarnizo, Almudena Gutiérrez, Luis Miguel Berná, Antonio Rodríguez & Alfonso Navarro-Ródenas

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    Alberto Andrino

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Appendix I: Research Institutes Relevant to Desert Truffles

Appendix I: Research Institutes Relevant to Desert Truffles

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University of Murcia

Department of Plant Biology (Botany), Faculty of Biology, Campus of Espinardo, Murcia 30,100, Spain

E-mail: amorte@um.es

Website:

https://www.um.es/web/biologia-vegetal/contenido/pdi

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Asuncion_Morte

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6426-0202

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The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84,105, Israel

E-mail: sitrit@bgu.ac.il

Website: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/bidr/FAAB/Pages/sitrit.aspx

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University of Oran

Department of Biotechnology, Oran, Algeria

E-mail: torfez2000@yahoo.fr

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https://www.univ-oran1.dz/

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Mohammed V-Agdal university

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco

E-mail: l.khabar@yahoo.fr

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Morte, A. et al. (2021). Desert Truffles (Terfezia spp.) Breeding. In: Al-Khayri, J.M., Jain, S.M., Johnson, D.V. (eds) Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Vegetable Crops. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66969-0_13

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