Genetic diversity of Tuber aestivum / uncinatum

2012

SPE IPM CT2 (vu VM)SPEIPMCT2 (vu VM); Tuber aestivum and Tuber uncinatum share a complicated common history from a taxonomic point of view. Indeed, different previous studies have shown contradictory conclusions. For some authors, Tuber aestivum and Tuber uncinatum are a single species and for others, they are two different species. In another study, we used 9 molecular markers: ITS1, ITS2, nuSSU, nuLSU, mtLSU, mtSSU, EF1α, β-tubulin and RPB2. The results show some genetic differences between samples for some of the analyzed sequences. However, no genetic differentiation that would support the separation of two different species was observed. We have concluded that Tuber aestivum and Tuber …