Truffle Farms of North America Databasing Project – Creating a resource for the North American Truffle Industry by Gregory Bonito & Scott Oneto

[Public] A team of researchers are conducting a survey of the North American Truffle Industry.

NATGA sees this project as a way to assess the size of our industry, when and where we are productive, growing conditions that work (or don’t work).

We need this data to drive research priorities and funding; and eventually marketing strategies for the…

November 18, 20200 comments
Black Truffle

Recorded November 16 2020

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Dr. Gregory Bonito

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Mycology, plant-fungal interactions, truffle ecology, & evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis in fungi.

Prof. Bonito studies ecology & evolution of plant-fungal-bacterial associations, with a particular interest in below ground root associated fungi including truffles, mushrooms & molds. These organisms provide important links between plants & soils & are functionally important to plant health & nutrition, nutrient cycles, & energy flows.…

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Scott Onetto

Farm Advisor

Scott Oneto has been a farm advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension for the past 22 years.

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