A Comprehensive and Critical Review on Ethnopharmacological Importance of Desert Truffles: Terfezia claveryi, Terfezia boudieri, and Tirmania nivea

VP Veeraraghavan, S Hussain… - Food Reviews …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mushrooms and truffles have gained a lot of attention due to their aroma for culinary use and
high nutritional content. Truffles, which are distributed in many African and European …

[HTML][HTML] Mushroom nutrition as preventative healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

T Fernandes, C Garrine, J Ferrão, V Bell, T Varzakas - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The defining characteristics of the traditional Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) cuisine have been
the richness in indigenous foods and ingredients, herbs and spices, fermented foods and …

Mushrooms and truffles: historical biofactories for complementary medicine in Africa and in the middle East

H El Enshasy, EA Elsayed, R Aziz… - Evidence‐Based …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The ethnopharmaceutical approach is important for the discovery and development of
natural product research and requires a deep understanding not only of biometabolites …

Successes and challenges in the sustainable cultivation of edible mycorrhizal fungi–furthering the dream

A Guerin-Laguette - Mycoscience, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The cultivation of edible mycorrhizal fungi (EMF) has made great progress since the first
cultivation of Tuber melanosporum in 1977 but remains in its infancy. Five cultivation steps …

[HTML][HTML] A mycorrhizal helper bacterium alleviates drought stress in mycorrhizal Helianthemum almeriense plants by regulating water relations and plant hormones

ÁL Guarnizo, A Navarro-Ródenas… - Environmental and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Complex interactions between mycorrhizal helper bacteria (MHBs) and mycorrhizal fungi
have rarely been studied in the context of drought. Separately, both MHB inoculation and …

Desert truffle genomes reveal their reproductive modes and new insights into plant–fungal interaction and ectendomycorrhizal lifestyle

JE Marqués‐Gálvez, S Miyauchi, F Paolocci… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Desert truffles are edible hypogeous fungi forming ectendomycorrhizal symbiosis with plants
of Cistaceae family. Knowledge about the reproductive modes of these fungi and the …

Las micorrizas: una relación planta-hongo que dura más de 400 millones de años

MH García - Anales del jardín botánico de Madrid, 2009 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Se define el concepto de micorriza en un sentido amplio, como una simbiosis no
necesariamente mutualística, para incluir las relaciones tróficas de hongos micorrícicos con …

Expression analysis of aquaporins from desert truffle mycorrhizal symbiosis reveals a fine-tuned regulation under drought

A Navarro-Ródenas, G Bárzana… - Molecular Plant …, 2013 - Am Phytopath Society
We have performed the isolation, functional characterization, and expression analysis of
aquaporins in roots and leaves of Helianthemum almeriense, in order to evaluate their roles …

Effects of climate on the productivity of desert truffles beneath hyper-arid conditions

L Bradai, S Bissati, H Chenchouni, K Amrani - International journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Desert truffles are edible hypogenous fungi that are very well adapted to conditions of aridity
in arid and semi-arid regions. This study aims to highlight the influence of climatic factors on …

[HTML][HTML] Cultivation of desert truffles—A crop suitable for arid and semi-arid zones

A Morte, V Kagan-Zur, A Navarro-Ródenas, Y Sitrit - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Desert truffles are edible hypogeous (forming fruit bodies below ground) fungi that grow in
semi-arid and arid areas. They are highly valued for both their culinary and medicinal …