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NATGA Annual Congress 2023 in California


I´ve been invited as a keynote speaker at the next NATGA congress in Paso Robles, CA, to be done next October 8th-10th. The organization has created a great event, mix of technical features with field visits and tastings, even allowing … Continue reading

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Preliminary results on Tuber borchii ecological studies


A few months ago we published a poster at the TAUESG Vísby conference about Tuber borchii ecology, comparing natural producing sites in Portugal, Spain and Hungary. Here you have links to download the poster: Preliminary results on Tuber borchii Vitt. … Continue reading

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Coming Truffle Farming Conferences in the US


This february two conferences are organized in each coast of the US. This coming weekend 2nd February the North American Truffle Growers Association makes its winter conference in Charlottesville (Virginia). I´ll be there as speaker to give two lectures about … Continue reading

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5 years research on black truffle mothers and fathers


For the first time it has been possible to study genetically the female and the male factors in black truffles. In a study of our researcher Herminia de la Varga, while she was in a postdoc in the INRA, shows … Continue reading

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how to decide a layout for truffle farming in the USA?


The last two weeks we have been visiting 8 truffle farming projects in the USA with @xvilanovasola, mostly in California and in North Carolina. Let me comment some of the issues we mostly find and to compare the climates and … Continue reading

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Truffle Growing in México


I attach a picture of the 1300 Pinus pinea that we planted in Zumpango, México in 2015 and their evolution since planted. In another pilot plot more to the north we have 1 hectare with 250 stone pines plus another with … Continue reading

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Truffle Farming worldwide update for 2017


A spanish newspaper (el Diario de Teruel) asked me some data to create an updated paper and Infographic about truffle farming in the world, and this is how it looks like, although it is in spanish I though it was nice … Continue reading

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Some bacteria and active organic compounds boost truffles mycelium


My partner Dr. Xavier Vilanova just gave a lecture about the new results from a joint research project we do with IRTA in Barcelona. As you´ll see in the embed lecture we tested 8 bacteria strains and 6 organic compounds … Continue reading

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New data to water our melanosporum truffiere


One of the most practical lectures at the last conference in Cahors was the one about irrigation in black truffle orchards done by Carlos Colinas. For the first time we get some specific data about it. Congrats to the whole … Continue reading

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more insights about black truffle reproduction


Image copyright from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/073650 Just back from the IWEMM8 in France, with plenty of topics to discuss in this Blog. Two new papers help us to understand how black truffle reproduces sexually. Understanding the sex life of truffles is … Continue reading

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