Ecological Characters of Truffles
We undertook an overview of the physical and chemical quality of soil characteristics, features of morphology, distribution and mycorrhizal relationships of Tuberaceae in China. The topsoil is found to be limestone region, abundant organic matter and the
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Ecological Characters of Truffles Hai-feng Wang, Yan-ling Zhao and Yong-jun Fan
Abstract We undertook an overview of the physical and chemical quality of soil characteristics, features of morphology, distribution and mycorrhizal relationships of Tuberaceae in China. The topsoil is found to be limestone region, abundant organic matter and the soil type is determined to be sand-clay-slimy. Various characteristics are recorded including ascocarp features (hypogenous, like tubers) and color (peridium, glebe red tones, brown), time of appearance (October to April), host (Pinus, Rhododendron polifolium, Eragrostis piosa), habitat (basic soil, sand-clay-slimy, and semi-arid zone), fresh weight (8–150 g) and ascospore morphology (3–5warty spherics, medium size). The relationship between truffle growth and weather, soil, vegetation are particularly elaborated. A general overview of the characteristic of many ecosystem factors of region is described, especially where truffles grow. In conclusion, the habitats of tuberaceae should be protected by turning those fields into natural protected areas. Keywords Truffles
Ecological Review Characters
368.1 Introduction Truffles are true tuber if it belongs to the section of Ascomycotina, and it is a type of ectomycorrhizal fungus of symbiosis relation with trees such as Pinaceae and Fagaceae etc. [22, 27]. Ascocarp living underground can be eaten so be called H. Wang Department of Biology Engineering, Baotou Light Industry Vocational Technical College, Baotou, China Y. Zhao Y. Fan (&) Department of Biology Science and Technology, Baotou Teacher’s College, Baotou, China e-mail: [email protected]
S. Li et al. (eds.), Frontier and Future Development of Information Technology 2903 in Medicine and Education, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 269, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7618-0_368, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
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‘‘Truffle’’. Some truffles are highly prized as edible fungi [2]. Because of rare product area, scarce yield, vagary scent and expensive delicacy, they are the rarest edible fungi. Meanwhile, truffle mycorrhizal fungi have been recognized as providing ‘‘keystone’’ ecosystem functions, because of their direct access to plant carbon that drives below-ground microbial communities. Truffles as one of mycorrhizas, they assist plants in obtaining water and nutrients, protect plant roots from pathogens, and form below-ground networks that link above-ground plant communities [1, 21, 10, 18]. For the sake of better the development and make use of this rare resources, we carried on initial summary of the physiology ecology characteristic of truffle, be reported as follows:
368.2 Morphological Feature and Emergence Period of Sporocarp Ascocarp of truffle is subglobose, semi-sphericity, tuber and irregular tuber. Diameter 1.5–12 cm, Fresh weight ranges between 8 and 150 g per ascocarp with the color being brown to dark brown, blackish brown or especially glebe red tones. When dry dust-color. Its surface have different small wart, wh
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