Table 2.
Presence of Tuber melanosporum and Tuber brumale mycorrhiza on T. melanosporum-inoculated seedlings
| Nursery | No. of seedlings analyzed | No. of seedlings colonized with: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. melanosporum | T. brumale | Neither | ||
| Q. robur | ||||
| Nursery 1 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 1 |
| Nursery 3 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 15 |
| Nursery 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Nursery 5a | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Total (%) | 51 | 32 (62.8) | 3 (5.9) | 17 (33.3) |
| Q. ilex | ||||
| Nursery 2 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Nursery 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Nursery 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Total (%) | 31 | 24 (77.4) | 4 (12.9) | 3 (9.7) |
| C. avellana | ||||
| Nursery 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Total (%) | 3 | 2 (66.7) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (33.3) |
| Total overall (%) | 85 | 58 (68.2) | 7 (8.2) | 21 (24.7) |
a
One seedling had both T. melanosporum and T. brumale present.