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Truffle Cultivation

Truffles are mycorrhizal species, meaning that they exist in a symbiotic relationship with plants - usually trees. Without the host plant, there is no truffle. Thus, cultivation depends upon the development of a plantation of trees that truffles like. Typically the seedling tree roots are inoculated with truffles then planted. With proper management, truffles appear a few years later.

Learn more with these resources:

• Black Truffles (Tuber melanosporum) in Australia
• The Cultivation of Mycorrhizal Mushrooms - Success and Failure (PDF - 624K)
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• Truffles - by Southern Woods Nursery in Christchurch, New Zealand
• New Zealand Truffle Association
• Australian Truffle Growers Association
• Truffles, Mushrooms and Mycorrhizas
• Molecular Tools for Truffle Farmers: Rapid Identification of Tuber melanosporum on Tree Roots (PDF - 1400K)
• Evaluation Of The Potential Of Growing Tuber Melanosporum As A Crop On Mainland Australia For Export And Domestic Consumption (PDF - 172K)
• Effect of soil conditions on the fruiting of the Perigord Truffle (Tuber melanosporum) (PDF - 92K)
• Pecan Truffles (Tuber lyonii)

• For more information about black truffles, Tuber melanosporum, check out the Sainte Alvere website in the heart of France's Perigord Region.
• In 2009, researchers in Oregon produced a feasibility report (PDF) that provides a great history of truffles as well as current conditions and trends. The study explains the opportunities that a truffle industry offers Oregon and shows how to go about developing a premier industry characterized by high-quality products, ethical business practices, environmentally responsible production, and widely accrued benefits. There is also an annual truffle festival in Oregon.