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SUBMITTER: Chen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3030557 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Juan J Guo Shun-Xing SX Liu Pei-Gui PG
PloS one 20110128 1
Morphological delimitation of Asian black truffles, including Tuber himalayense, T. indicum, T. sinense, T. pseudohimalayense, T. formosanum and T. pseudoexcavatum, has remained problematic and even phylogenetic analyses have been controversial. In this study, we combined five years of field investigation in China with morphological study and DNA sequences analyses (ITS, LSU and β-tubulin) of 131 Tuber specimens to show that T. pseudohimalayense and T. pseudoexcavatum are the same species. T. fo ...[more]