{"id":447,"date":"2024-10-18T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/lhabitat-mes-important-que-el-clima-en-el-conreu-de-tofona\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:02:27","slug":"habitat-more-important-than-climate-in-truffle-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/habitat-more-important-than-climate-in-truffle-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat, more important than climate in truffle cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n<ul>\n <li><strong>A study in which researchers from the CTFC-Agrotecnio unit have taken part concludes that fungal communities are more similar in plantation areas, even if they are in different climates, than between crops and wild areas in the same climatic region.<\/strong><\/li>\n <li><strong>The research also points out that agricultural soil management practices in inoculated truffle plantations favour the abundance of other tuber species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18012\" src=\"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/tofones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" \/>\n\nHabitat (agricultural or wild) affects the structure of fungal communities associated with truffles more than climatic regions or host trees. This has been determined by research led by the Centre for Forest Science and Technology of Catalonia (CTFC), the University of Lleida (UdL) and the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), published in the scientific journal Fungal Biology. Research staff from the joint CTFC-Agrotecnio unit, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the University of Cambridge (UK), the Czech Global Change Research Institute (GCRI), the European Mycological Institute (EMI) and the Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n y Tecnolog\u00eda Agroalimentaria de Arag\u00f3n (CITA) have also taken part in the study.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe team studied the fungal communities present in areas where black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and summer truffle (Tuber aestivum) coexist in locations in Spain and Switzerland, during three sampling periods, depending on their habitat (wild or plantation) and climatic region (Mediterranean or temperate). The results indicate that fungal communities are more similar in plantation areas, although they are from different climates, than between cultivated and wild areas in the same climatic region.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n<strong>\u2018A Mediterranean plantation dominated by holm oaks and one outside the temperate zone and with hazel as the main species are more similar to each other than a cultivated and a wild Mediterranean area, with the same host trees and the same climate,\u2019<\/strong> explains the first author of the article and researcher at CTFC and the UdL, Yasmin Pi\u00f1uela. \u2018This reflects the potential dominance of ecosystem age, soil properties and management practices compared to other ecological factors,\u2019 she adds.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u00a0The study also points out that agricultural soil management practices in inoculated truffle plantations (T. melanosporum and T. aestivum) favour the abundance of other tuber species \u2018possibly due to their colonising character\u2019.\u00a0\n\n\u00a0Text: Communication CTFC \/ Premsa UdL\u00a0\u00a0\n\n \n\nMore information:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1878614624000217?CMX_ID=&amp;SIS_ID=&amp;dgcid=STMJ_219742_AUTH_SERV_PA&amp;utm_acid=192759140&amp;utm_campaign=STMJ_219742_AUTH_SERV_PA&amp;utm_in=DM452632&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=AC_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1878614624000217?CMX_ID=&amp;SIS_ID=&amp;dgcid=STMJ_219742_AUTH_SERV_PA&amp;utm_acid=192759140&amp;utm_campaign=STMJ_219742_AUTH_SERV_PA&amp;utm_in=DM452632&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=AC_<\/a>\u00a0\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in which researchers from the CTFC-Agrotecnio unit have taken part concludes that fungal communities are more similar in plantation areas, even if they are in different climates, than between crops and wild areas in the same climatic region. The research also points out that agricultural soil management practices in inoculated truffle plantations favour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}