My
research
focus on desert truffles including Terfezia boudieri
that forms mycorrhizal association with its host plant Helianthemum sessiliflorum.
We
study the fungus at several levels i.e.
physiology, ecology and molecular biology.
We participate in a project
to
sequence genomes of
fungi
including
our desert truffles, in
the frame of The European Community Sequencing Program.