Desert Truffles

Part I. Phylogeny

1. Hypogeous Desert Fungi
Gabriel Moreno, Pablo Alvarado, José Luis Manjón

2. Nomenclatural History and Genealogies of Desert Truffles
Gábor M. Kovács, James M. Trappe

3. Cryptic and New Species
Juan-Julián Bordallo, Antonio Rodríguez

Part II. Conditions Favoring Mycorrhiza Formation

4. Soil Properties
Eleonora Bonifacio, Asunción Morte

5. Types of Mycorrhizal Association
Nurit Roth-Bejerano, Alfonso Navarro-Ródenas, Almudena Gutiérrez

6. Pre-symbiotic Interactions Between the Desert Truffle Terfezia boudieri and Its Host Plant Helianthemum sessiliflorum

Yaron Sitrit, Nurit Roth-Bejerano, Varda Kagan-Zur, Tidhar Turgeman

7. Benefits Conferred on Plants
Varda Kagan-Zur, Tidhar Turgeman, Nurit Roth-Bejerano, Asunción Morte, Yaron Sitrit

Part III. Distribution

8. Ecology and Distribution of Desert Truffles in Western North America
James M. Trappe, Gábor M. Kovács, Nancy S. Weber

9. The European Desert Truffles
Gérard Chevalier

10. Mediterranean Basin: North Africa
Lahsen Khabar

11. Asian Mediterranean Desert Truffles
Varda Kagan-Zur, Mehmet Akyuz

12. Non-Mediterranean Asian Desert Countries
Ali Ammarellou, Yun Wang, Gorbanali Nematzadeh, Mohammadali Tajick

13. Ecology and Distribution of Desert Truffles in the Kalahari of Southern Africa
James M. Trappe, Andrew W. Claridge, Varda Kagan-Zur

14. Ecology and Distribution of Desert Truffles in the Australian Outback
Andrew W. Claridge, James M. Trappe, David J. Paull

Part IV. Fruit-Body Attributes

15. The History of Desert Truffle Use
Elinoar Shavit

16. Enzymes in Terfezia claveryi Ascocarps
Manuela Pérez-Gilabert, Francisco García-Carmona, Asunción Morte

17. Nutritional and Antioxidant Properties of Terfezia and Picoa

Magdalena Martínez-Tomé, Luana Maggi, Antonia María Jiménez-Monreal, María Antonia Murcia, Josep Antoni Tur Marí

18. Nutritional and Antioxidant Properties of the White Desert Truffle Tirmania nivea (Zubaidi)
Abdul Ameer A. Al-Laith

19. Preservation of Truffles
María Antonia Murcia, Luana Maggi, Ghulam Hussain, Antonia María Jiménez-Monreal, Magdalena Martínez-Tomé, Ibrahim M. Alruqaie

20. The Medicinal Value of Desert Truffles
Elinoar Shavit, Efrat Shavit

Part V. Cultivation

21. Domestication: Preparation of Mycorrhizal Seedlings
Asunción Morte, Alberto Andrino

22. Preparation and Maintenance of Both Man-Planted and Wild Plots
Mario Honrubia, Alberto Andrino, Asunción Morte

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