By Jason Stajich, on April 15th, 2010
A couple of papers should have captured your attention lately in the realm of fungal genomics.
One is the publication of the genome of the black truffle Tuber melanosporum. This appears as an advanced publication at Nature (OA by virtue of Nature’s agreement on genome papers) along with a NYT writeup and is a tasty exploration of [...]
By Chris Villalta, on May 16th, 2008
(Truffle picture from BBC.com)
The BBC (link) has an interesting article about a Chinese Black truffle being found as an invasive species in Italy. The Italian’s and European truffle aficionados are worried that the Chinese Black Truffle will outcompete the Perigord Black truffle, which is supposed to be very tasty and the second most expensive truffle by weight, behind only the Piedmont White Truffle. [...]
