Marcos Morcillo Serra

MICOLOGIA FORESTAL & APLICADA

Cami Del Fou, s/n

08459 Sant Antoni De Vilamajor

Barcelona SPAIN

Phone: +34-938155455

I began to focus on mycorrhizas after graduating in Biology at the University of Barcelona (SPAIN) in 1994. My main study area was to develope new techniques to inoculate truffles and other edible mycorrhizal mushrooms (Lactarius delicosus and Boletus edulis) directly on mature trees, what we finaly named as Mycoforest Technology ®.

On 1998 with 2 more partners from the University, we created Micología Forestal & Aplicada (MF&A at micofora.com), a private research center specialized on truffles, whith projects in several countries (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, Mexico...).

Our center is also specialized in technology transfer, so I´m also leading license projects abroad in order to create nurseries to produce truffle and saffron milk cap infected trees.

From 2007 I have my own truffle orchard with more than 4.000 trees with Tuber melanosporum and borchii.

In 2006 I wrote the quality standarts to certify truffle infected trees for the Goverment of Andalucia (Spain). And in 2007 I wrote a technical truffle guide book for the spanish Goverment: Morcillo M., Moreno B., Pulido E., Sánchez M. Manual de truficultura Andaluza. Ed. Gypaetus y Consejería de Medio Ambiente. Junta de Andalucía. pp. 176.

In 2015 I published a new book on Truffle farming, with english and spanish editions:

- Morcillo M, Sanchez M, Vilanova X. (2015). Cultivar Trufas, una realidad en expansión. 352pp. ISBN 978-84-617-3654-6

- Morcillo M, Sanchez M, Vilanova X. (2015). Truffle Farming Today, a Comprehensive World Guide. 352pp. ISBN 978-84-617-1307-3

I write two Blogs mainly about truffles:

in english: http://trufflefarming.wordpress.com/

in spanish: http://micofora.blogspot.com.es/