For the first time, researchers have succeeded in cultivating the coveted white truffle outside of its natural range.
Claude Murat remembers a day in September 2020: "I was visiting a truffle plantation in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. We followed a truffle dog, a Lagotto Romagnolo, and were curious to see if he would find anything.”
This plantation in western France is home to 52 trees that have great hopes for scientists, truffle lovers and entrepreneurs around the world. The exact coordinates of these trees are kept secret. Because what the researchers around Murat harvest here at the foot of the trees
