Breakthrough study could unlock key to more reliable truffle cultivation

Low-Res_1. Professor Paul Thomas and truffle dog, Tweed

Source: University of Stirling.

A pioneering study has revealed that growing truffles depends not just on soil conditions, but on a complex underground ecosystem that the truffles may help to engineer themselves.

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