The Chinese Black Truffle (Tuber indicum) belongs to the Tuberaceae (Pezizales, Pezizomycetes). This ectomycorrhizal Ascomycota establishes a mutualistic symbiosis with oak, and mountain pines in the
The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis between fungi and plants involves most of the known plant species. We already opened a nuclear genome of the symbiont fungi, Rhizophagus clarus HR1, but it was sti