Summary: Twenty to thirty sorts of truffle fungi can be harvested in Europe, which is the continent with the oldest tradition of truffle...

Summary: Truffle owe their smell to odorants, small molecules that connect to smell receptors inside the human nose. Odorants are studied...

Not all fungi growing underground are "prized truffles"

Summary: Living below the soil surface, truffle fungi cannot rely on wind for spreading their spores. Instead, truffles signal their...

Summary: Truffle fungi grow on the roots of plants in a mutually beneficial association known as a “symbiosis”, where the fungus receives...