BACKGROUND Pollen forecasts are highly valuable for allergen avoidance and thus raising the quality of life of persons concerned by pollen allergies. They are considered as valuable free services for the public. Careful scientific evaluation of pollen forecasts in terms of accurateness and reliability has not been available till date. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze 9 mobile ap...

BACKGROUND Climate change could affect allergic diseases, especially due to pollen. However, there has been no epidemiologic study to demonstrate the relationship between meteorological factors, pollen, and allergic patients. We aimed to investigate the association between meteorological variations and hospital visits of patients with tree pollen allergy. METHODS The study subjects were adult...

Type 1 allergic reactions, such as hay fever and allergic asthma, triggered by grass pollen allergens are a global health problem that affects approximately 20% of the population in cool, temperate climates. Ryegrass is the dominant source of allergens because of its prodigious production of airborne pollen. Lol p 5 is the major allergenic protein of ryegrass pollen, judging from the fact that ...

the developmental period, prey consumption of different nymph instars, survival, reproduction and longevity of orius albidipennis were studied on three different diets including the two-spotted spider mite, tetranychus urticae plus corn pollen; two-spotted spider mite; and eggs of sitotroga cerealella plus corn pollen under laboratory conditions. leaves of pelargonium hortom served as ovipositi...

Introduction Although much has been added to our knowledge concerning the requirements for pollen germination and pollen tube growth in recent years (1, 2, 4, 10, 17, 18), very little progress has been made in studying chemotropism of pollen tubes. Literature dealing with this subject prior to 1924 has been reviewed by BRINK (3). There is an obvious lack of agreement among the different workers...

Floral-color Changes Floral-color changes are common among the angiosperms. At least three non-exclusive hypotheses have been proposed to explain these changes: 1. Once flowers are adequately pollinated, further pollinator visits impair reproduction by deposition of self-pollen, dislodging of pollen, or damage to floral parts. 2. Color changes mark flowers that have been depleted of their rewar...

To elucidate the starch synthesis pathway and the role of this reserve in rice pollen, we characterized mutations in the plastidic phosphoglucomutase, OspPGM, and the plastidic large subunit of ADP-glucose (ADP-Glc) pyrophosphorylase, OsAGPL4 Both genes were up-regulated in maturing pollen, a stage when starch begins to accumulate. Progeny analysis of self-pollinated heterozygous lines carrying...

The sensitivity of pollen as an indicator of elevation inneotropical lowlandandAndean forestswasmeasured usingmodern pollen samples collected frommoss-polsters along a transect between 340 mand 3530 m elevation and from surface sediments in lowland swamps (240 m) of Madre de Dios, Peru. A blind study, using samples collected from the same transect in the following year, provided a test of repro...

Abstract Iron phosphate-modified pollen microspheres (pollen@FePO 4 ) were prepared and applied as sorbents for the removal of heavy metals (Cd 2+ Pb from aqueous solution. Batch sorption studies conducted to investigate effects solution pH, contact time, sorbent dosage, metal concentration on adsorption process. The Cd ions pollen@FePO corresponds pseudo-second-order model Langmuir isotherm, w...