Published in Scientific Bulletin. Series F. Biotechnologies, Vol. XXIV
Written by Monica ENACHE, Matei COMAN, Marius HANGAN
Many allergenic plants are wind-pollinated and produce large amount of pollen that has the ability to float in the air. An efficient preventive treatment for pollen allergy is the avoidance of exposure. This can be done if there is a detection of the regional atmospheric concentrations for various pollen types. The present study shows the results of an outdoor pollen trapping experiment in the vicinity of an area rich in vegetation, the Carol Park in Bucharest, during a week in May 2018. Pollen analysis was done using stained microscope slides at a magnification of 400×. Microscopic images of all the pollen grains on the slides were photographed with a Sony Cyber-shot digital camera (Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 5× zoom lens). Eight pollen types were identified, these were: inaperturate; monoporate; triporate; pollen with 4 pores; periporate; tricolpate; tricolporate and saccate pollen.
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