Authors : Vilas Patil, Pratik Shinde, Avinash Ade, Sarita Shinde
Page Nos : 146-154
Description :
Air contains particles of plants and animal origin which is called air spora. Earlier studies of air spora was done
exposing sticky surface but due to its low efficiency has led to the development of suction trap and later on Tilak and
Kulkarni discover “Volumetric continuous Tilak Air sampler”. Glycerine jelly was used for better visuals. This article
elaborates the comparative study of two different locations Newasa and Dhule, it is found that there is difference not
only in between humidity, temperature, rain fall and wind velocity but also in air spora. More than 70 type of fungal
spores identified during study, which belongs to various groups such as Zygomycotina, Ascomycotina,
Basidiomycotina and Deuteromycotina. Fungal members from group Myxomycotina were only found in Newasa, this
may happen due to variation in biodiversity to surrounding of crop. In addition to this fungal groups Insect parts,
pollen grains, plant trichomes and protozoan cysts were found.
