Use of a Truffle Dog Provides Insight Into the Ecology and Abundant Occurrence of Genea (Pyronemataceae) in Western Oregon, USA Genea is an overlooked but abundant underground fruiting fungus (“truffle”). We used a dog who is trained to find all truffles (not just culinary species) to look for Genea in Oregon. We found that G...

First #TruffleDog paper co-authored by my sister and myself is out! #SiblingScientists

We demonstrated that hard-to-see Genea #truffle #fungi are almost everywhere in western Oregon, most of the time.

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