Desing And Build A Micological Botanical Garden – Spanish Government From Andalucia
Start date: January 2003. Project Description: At the request of the Government of Andalusia (South Spain region), the design and monitoring of works was carried out to transform a public space of more than 1 hectare in a Botanical Micological Garden & Museum. We recreated several habitats from Andalusia, in order to bear fruiting [...]
Technology Transfer to Produce Truffle Trees in Chile
Start date: March 2011 Objectives: Technology transfer to produce mycorrhizal truffle trees with black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) for marketing in Chile. Description: The project is structured in three consecutive tree production cycles, during which they were transferred all protocols for the design and construction of facilities, sowing, inoculation and monitoring Quercus ilex levels of [...]
Growing Tuber Borchii on Hazels – Chile
Objectives: Test of hazel tree inoculation with Tuber borchii comparing different stages of inoculation. mycorrhizae were analyzed in the field. Project area: South of Chile, Temuco. The results of this work have been presented at a scientific conference in poster form:poster. More information
Corfo Project to Monitor Truffle Orchards in Chile
Start date: September 2015 Objectives: To audit, monitor and prescribe different management mycorrhizal Quercus ilex plantations with Tuber melanosporum in the regions of O'Higgins and Maule (central Chile). Description: The project is structured in 4 sampling visits of different plantations, where root samples for the detection of mycorrhizae are taken and soil samples for [...]
Compatibilization of the Cultivation of Hazelnuts and Truffles – Coselva.
Start date: May 2015 Objectives: Test for compatibility of hazelnut cultivation with the production of truffles. Methodology: Inoculation of in vitro Dundee variety with Tuber borchii, and Tuber melanosporum & Tuber brumale hazels. Grafting with local cultivars of hazelnut to see how it affects the graft to mycorrhizal colonization. We used different methodologies to [...]
R+D Project to Grow Tuber Borchii in Portugal
Start date: March 2010 Objectives: To assess the genetic diversity of Tuber borchii in plantations and forests of Portugal. Study their competitiveness with other native ectomycorrhizal fungi. Description: Tuber borchii grows naturally in Portugal and has been found associated with less sensitive forests to the dry disease of Quercus. Monitoring was performed by molecular [...]
Truffle Inoculation in a Notophagus Forest – Chile
Start date: September 2010 Objectives: Trial inoculations in Notophagus glauca forest with Tuber melanosporum & Tuber aestivum. Description: different Notophagus forest plots near Lake Colbun (Chile) were inoculated using the Mycoforest technology, with Tuber melanosporum (September 2010) and Tuber aestivum (September 2013). After 2 years of inoculation root samples they were taken to assess [...]
Mycelium Quantification of Tuber Melanosporum
Start date: September 2013 Objectives: Quantification of the mycelium of Tuber melanosporum over a year and creating curves benchmark for Quercus ilex. Methodology: During one year bimonthly two soil samples were taken from truffle plantations. These samples were analyzed by real-time PCR technique in order to quantify the concentration of mycelium black truffle in [...]