Black truffle winter production depends on Mediterranean summer precipitation

The unprecedented price inflation of Black truffles, recently exceeding 5000 Euro kg ^−1 (in Zurich), is a combined result of increasing global demands and decreasing Mediterranean harvests. Since the effects of long-term irrigation and climate variation on symbiotic fungus-host interaction and the...

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Main Authors: Ulf Büntgen, Daniel Oliach, Fernando Martínez-Peña, Joaquin Latorre, Simon Egli, Paul J. Krusic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab1880