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Truffle

A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, one of the species of the genus Tuber. More than one hundred other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including Geopora, Peziza, Choiromyces, and Leucangium. These genera belong to the class Pezizomycetes and the Pezizales order. Several truffle-like basidiomycetes are excluded…

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Truffle

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Edges227
Triples195
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Additional resources · 30
Truffle → Aplicada, Archived, Business Insider, Comprehensive World Guide, Enjoying, Evans, Field Guide, Frank, Global History, Hunting, Identifying, ISBN, James, Matt, Micología Forestal, Morcillo, Natural History Series, North American Truffles, Nowak, Reaktion
related to Antiquity · 24
Truffle → Amorite, BCE, Because Ancient Roman, Carthage, Cicero, Classical, Dioscorides, In, Juvenal, Lesbos, Libya, Plutarch, Rome, Sumerians, Terfez, The, The Romans, Their, Theophrastus, Third Dynasty
related to Phylogeny · 15
Truffle → All, Contained, Eocene, Eocene Okanagan Highlands Princeton, Molecular, Morchellaceae, Pezizaceae, Pezizales, Pezizomycotina, Phylogenetic, Pyronematacae, The, This, Tuberaceae, Within
related to United States · 12
Truffle → Appalachian, Arkansas, As, At, California, East Tennessee, Eastern, North Carolina, Oregon, Périgord, Tennessee, Tuber
related to Nutrient cycling · 11
Truffle → Acquisition, Bacteria, Because, Many, Microscopic, Mycelial, Mycorrhizal, Often, Plants, These, Thus
related to Volatile constituents · 11
Truffle → C8-alcohols, Depending, DMDS, DMS, DMTS, Fatty, Metabolites, Some, Sulfur, The, Thiophene
related to Ecology · 10
Truffle → Ectomycorrhizal, For, Geopora, In, Most, Mutualistic, Peziza, Plant, The, Tuber
related to Cultivation · 9
Truffle → Apt, As, France, French, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Joseph Talon, People, Truffles, Vaucluse
related to New Zealand and Australia · 9
Truffle → Gisborne, It, July, New Zealand, New Zealand's, Southern Hemisphere, The, Tuber, Waipara
related to Extraction · 8
Truffle → An, Because, Both, Dogs, In Italy, Pigs, Studies, Traditionally

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truffles fungi species tuber subterranean ectomycorrhizal trees plants used found france white also soil fruiting roots geopora bodies host harvested

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Truffleis afruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus0.90text
truffles provide valuable nutrients to plants in exchange for carbohydratesinstance ofMutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungi0.80text
volesinstance ofand rodents0.80text
squirrelsinstance ofand rodents0.80text
and chipmunksinstance ofand rodents0.80text
mites feed directly on myceliuminstance ofMicroscopic arthropods0.80text
release valuable nutrients for the uptake of other organismsinstance ofMicroscopic arthropods0.80text
butterinstance oftypically in a light brine.Their chemical compounds infuse well with fats0.80text
creaminstance oftypically in a light brine.Their chemical compounds infuse well with fats0.80text
cheesesinstance oftypically in a light brine.Their chemical compounds infuse well with fats0.80text
avocadosinstance oftypically in a light brine.Their chemical compounds infuse well with fats0.80text
and coconut cream.As the volatile aromas dissipate more quickly when heatedinstance oftypically in a light brine.Their chemical compounds infuse well with fats0.80text

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