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DOI	10.3390/agronomy11081462
	Cultivation of Desert Truffles-A Crop Suitable for Arid and Semi-Arid Zones
	Morte, Asuncion; Kagan-Zur, Varda; Navarro-Rodenas, Alfonso; Sitrit, Yaron
通讯作者	Kagan-Zur, V (corresponding author), Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Life Sci, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel.
来源期刊	AGRONOMY-BASEL
EISSN	2073-4395
出版年	2021
卷号	11 期号:8
英文摘要	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 properties in the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East and the Gulf areas. Desert truffles form mycorrhizae mostly with plants belonging to the Cistaceae family, mainly with Helianthemum species. These truffles are still, usually, collected from the wild, but loss of habitats due to urbanization, desertification, intensive agriculture and global warming, along with an urgent need to develop new crops adapted to arid conditions, are currently hastening efforts towards their domestication. Here, we sum up the successful research leading to cultivation of this crop, based on plots that were established in sandy to silt soils with high pH values and low mineral contents. We report suitable methods for production of mycorrhized seedlings and preferred planting methods. We found that under natural conditions yields are affected by water availability, so irrigation regimes to ensure good yields were sought. Although good yields were indeed obtained in some years, fluctuations in yields over the years were significant; the reasons for this are not entirely clear and are currently under study. This crop is particularly well suited to relatively marginal conditions but prospects for establishment of desert truffles as a niche crop for arid and semi-arid areas depend on further improvements in yields.
英文关键词	desert truffle cultivation mycorrhized seedlings Terfezia Helianthemum Cistaceae
类型	Review
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000688712500001
WOS关键词	TERFEZIA-CLAVERYI ; ASSOCIATIONS ; MYCORRHIZATION ; GROWTH
WOS类目	Agronomy ; Plant Sciences
WOS研究方向	Agriculture ; Plant Sciences
来源机构	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362408
作者单位	[Morte, Asuncion; Navarro-Rodenas, Alfonso] Univ Murcia, Fac Biol, Dept Biol Vegetal Bot, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum CMN,Campus Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain; [Kagan-Zur, Varda] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Life Sci, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel; [Sitrit, Yaron] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel; [Sitrit, Yaron] Katif Res Ctr Dev Coastal Deserts, IL-87710 Netivot, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Morte, Asuncion,Kagan-Zur, Varda,Navarro-Rodenas, Alfonso,et al. Cultivation of Desert Truffles-A Crop Suitable for Arid and Semi-Arid Zones[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,2021,11(8).
APA	Morte, Asuncion,Kagan-Zur, Varda,Navarro-Rodenas, Alfonso,&Sitrit, Yaron.(2021).Cultivation of Desert Truffles-A Crop Suitable for Arid and Semi-Arid Zones.AGRONOMY-BASEL,11(8).
MLA	Morte, Asuncion,et al."Cultivation of Desert Truffles-A Crop Suitable for Arid and Semi-Arid Zones".AGRONOMY-BASEL 11.8(2021).