No one has been able to farm the rare, expensive fungus on a commercial scale – until now
Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty ImagesThey emit intense aromas of garlic, fermented cheese and methane, and are so rare that they
While more than 90% of black, highly prized Périgord truffles sold are cultivated, previous attempts to farm their rarer white cousins have failed. This bumper harvest follows two productive years at the experimental plantation during which barely a handful were cultivated.and project leader Dr Claude Murat, of INRAE and the University of Lorraine, Nancy. “It confirms the truffle is well established.
Scientists developed a way to inoculate trees with Périgord truffles in the 1970s, leading to the establishment of thousands of plantations in A few truffles were found in the plantations 15-20 years after planting, but because these were in areas in whichStarting in 1999, researchers at INRAE and the Pépinières Robin nursery, in France, produced oak trees genetically confirmed to have partnered Italian white truffles. These were planted in a number of truffle orchards from 2008.
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