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November 25, 2025
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Enhancing truffle orchard management: agronomic practices and their impact on yield and crop development—a review

Publicated to: Agronomy For Sustainable Development. 45 (6): 73- - 2025-11-24 45(6), DOI: 10.1007/s13593-025-01071-w

Authors:

Sánchez, S., Murat, C., Donnini, D., Gómez-Molina, E., Rondolini, M., Marco, P., & Garcia-Barreda, S.
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Abstract

Truffles are highly valued edible fungi belonging to the genus Tuber which grow wild in symbiotic association with the roots of many perennial plants. Due to their high market value and the decline in wild harvests, the cultivation of several truffle species has expanded and progressed in recent decades, not only within their natural distribution areas but also in other countries. However, the advancement of truffle cultivation has been hampered by knowledge gaps in their biology and by the scarce information on their cultural requirements, resulting in highly heterogeneous productive results in different orchards. To fill the knowledge gap about agronomic practices in truffle cultivation, we reviewed the available experimental studies using a systematic approach. We created a comprehensive dataset of scientifically tested practices, which comprised 43 publications on five truffle species across four different continents, although most studies focus on Tuber melanosporum Vittad. in southwestern Europe. We reviewed the existing information on ten practices applied during the pre-productive stage of truffle cultivation and ten practices applied during the productive stage. In the pre-productive stage, experimental data are more abundant on weed and soil management, highlighting the role of these practices in promoting vegetative growth of the host tree and the fungus. In the productive stage, most studies focus on soil moisture management and show its key role in securing yields of T. melanosporum, although also suggesting long-term risks of sustained intensive irrigation regimes. This review provides guidance to growers in selecting the most effective practices for successful truffle cultivation under diverse environmental conditions in which truffles are cultivated, while pointing out the existing knowledge gaps in pruning and tillage, despite their being widespread practices in both cultivation stages.
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Keywords

CultivoEctomicorrizasMalezasManejo del sueloRendimiento de cultivosRiegoSostenibilidadTuber

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Agronomy For Sustainable Development due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 2/129, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Agronomy.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-01-14:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 4.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 4 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10532/8058
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: France; Italy.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Sánchez Duran, Sergio) and Last Author (García Barreda, Sergi).

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Awards linked to the item

Esta investigación ha sido financiada por la Unión Europea en el marco del programa «Horizonte 2020 — Programa Marco para la Investigación y la Innovación» (2014-2020), proyecto INTACT n.º 101007623 «Innovación en el cultivo, la conservación y la transformación de la trufa y en la gestión de los recursos de trufa silvestre».
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