The pollen calendar of Agra was recorded with special reference to allergenic significance. Pollen grains of 35 species belonging to 23 angiosperm families have been identified out of a total catch of 24,220/m3 of air annually. High occurrence of pollen grains in air belonged to Asteraceae (5222/m3) and Parthenium hysterophorus contributed the maximum (17.91%) of the total airspora. Higher coun...

Background: A common concern of the poultry industry is the presence of fungal pathogens in the birds’ environment, which may constitute a considerable health hazard to the birds, farmers, and those living in proximity of the farm. OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to assess the mycoflora in the indoor and outdoor environments of poultry breeding houses and studying the efficacy of disinf...

Prophylactic stump treatments against the conifer root rot fungus Heterobasidion annosum s.l. should take into account airborne inoculum density of pathogen, in order to be economically feasible. Our objective was test if an automatic volumetric spore trap (AVST) could used as a sensitive alternative passive traps for quantifying airspora forest stands. The routinely wood disc exposure method (...