Part I
Phylogeny
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Hypogeous Desert Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Gabriel Moreno, Pablo Alvarado, and Jose Luis Manjon
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Nomenclatural History and Genealogies of Desert Truffles . . . . . . .
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Gabor M. Kovacs and James M. Trappe
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Cryptic and New Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Juan-Julian Bordallo and Antonio Rodrıguez
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Part II
Conditions Favoring Mycorrhiza Formation
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Soil Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Eleonora Bonifacio and Asuncion Morte
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Types of Mycorrhizal Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Nurit Roth-Bejerano, Alfonso Navarro-Rodenas,
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and Almudena Gutierrez
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Pre-symbiotic Interactions Between the Desert Truffle
Terfezia boudieri and Its Host Plant Helianthemum sessiliflorum . . . .
Yaron Sitrit, Nurit Roth-Bejerano, Varda Kagan-Zur, and Tidhar Turgeman
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Benefits Conferred on Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Varda Kagan-Zur, Tidhar Turgeman, Nurit Roth-Bejerano,
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Asuncion Morte, and Yaron Sitrit
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Part III
Distribution
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Ecology and Distribution of Desert Truffles in Western
North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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James M. Trappe, Gabor M. Kovacs, and Nancy S. Weber
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The European Desert Truffles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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Gerard Chevalier
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Mediterranean Basin: North Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Lahsen Khabar
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Asian Mediterranean Desert Truffles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Varda Kagan-Zur and Mehmet Akyuz
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Non-Mediterranean Asian Desert Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
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