Tuber melosporum smooth spores: an anomalous feature in the genus Tuber.
This paper adds new insights on ecology and micromorphology of Tuber melosporum, a rare species with smooth spores. Eight T. melosporum ascomata collected in a 50 y old Pinus halepensis and Quercus ilex plantation in Sardinia, Italy, represent the first recovery of this species outside Spain. In comparison to the T. melosporum holotype, Italian specimens revealed differences in the number of spores in asci and spore shape. We propose an emended description of Tuber to include species without spore ornamentation.
Department of Agriculture, Via Enrico de Nicola n. 1, 07100 Sassari, Italy lance@uniss.it.
Enrico
E
Lancellotti
Department of Agriculture, Via Enrico de Nicola n. 1, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
Paolo
P
Fantini
Department of Agricultural Science, Viale Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
Mirco
M
Iotti
Department of Agriculture, Via Enrico de Nicola n. 1, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
Antonio
A
Franceschini
Department of Agricultural Science, Viale Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
Alessandra
A
Zambonelli
D001203:Ascomycota / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D007558:Italy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D028223:Pinus / Q000382:microbiology*; D029963:Quercus / Q000382:microbiology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013172:Spores, Fungal
D004271:DNA, Fungal; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
distribution; ecology; taxonomy