Tuber Fulgens Quél. A New Record for Turkish Truffles

Abstract

Tuber samples were collected from Kırklareli province on the 10th of August 2020 and they areidentified by implementing both traditional methods and molecular phylogenetic analysis using therDNA sequences including Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) and 28S Ribosomal Large Subunit(LSU) regions. By taking into account the high sequence similarity between the collected samples(ANK Akata 7351) and the truffle species Tuber fulgens Quél. the collected specimen was regardedas T. fulgens and the morphological data also consolidated this finding. As a result, T. fulgens wasreported for the first time from Turkey. A short description of the newly reported species is givenalong with its macro and microphotographs, and spore images taken by a scanning electronmicroscope (SEM). Additionally, ITS and LSU rDNA based evolutionary history of the specimenis provided with phylogenetic trees