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What information about those delicate fungal flavors and aromas will now yield itself to the prying machines of molecular biologists? French and Italian researchers announced in the journal Nature, that the genome of the Perigord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) has been sequenced. Of course if you followed fungal news on twitter, you’d already know this, [...]

Tags: genome sequencing, genomics, perigord black truffle, symbiosis genes, truffle genome sequenced, Tuber mating types, Tuber melanosporum