Fungal diversity in the Mediterranean area: recent advances and future prospects

Fungal diversity in the Mediterranean area: recent advances and future prospects

Symposium organizers: Giuseppe Venturella & Georgios Zervakis

Programme

1) Zambonelli Alessandra, Iotti Mirco & Hall Ian (invited lecture): Diversity of the genus Tuber in the wider Mediterranean Area and prospects for the commercial exploitation of selected truffle species.

2) Mello Antonietta (invited lecture): Advances in the identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi – insights on their biological and ecological aspects.

3) Venturella Giuseppe, Ferraro Valeria & Gargano Maria Letizia: Biodiversity, conservation and exploitation of medicinal mushrooms in Italy.

4) Lewinsohn Dalia: The unique mycobiota of the Negev desert in Israel.

5) Leonardi Marco, Comandini Ornella & Rinaldi Andrea C.: Halimium and associated mycobionts: a new look at Mediterranean ectomycorrhizal communities.

6) Polemis Elias, Daskalopoulos Vassilis , Fryssouli Vassiliki & Zervakis Georgios I.: Inventory of macrofungi associated with Alnus glutinosa (priority habitat 91E0) from Andros island, Greece.

7) Discussion

8) DIRFIS MUSHROOMS: Let’s taste the mushroom diversity.