Air Pollution : Biopollutants in Air/A.K. Srivastava. New
Delhi, A.P.H., 2008, xiv, 302 p., tables, figs., ISBN
81-313-0333-7.
Air Pollution : Biopollutants in Air/A.K. Srivastava. New
Delhi, A.P.H., 2008, xiv, 302 p., tables, figs., ISBN
81-313-0333-7.
Contents: Preface. I. 1. Chronological development of aeromycology in India. 2. Methodology. 3. A key for visual identification of air borne particulates. 4. A comparative account of occurrence, distribution and diurnal pattern in morning, noon and evening of air fungal for three years. II. 1. Impact of air borne fungi on some diseases on important crop of India. III. 1. Studies on fungi from otitis media of agricultural field workers. 2. Fungi from asymptomatic and diseased nails of workers and from air of different working environments. 3. Diagnosis to allergenic disorders based on fungal spores occurrence in air, symptom score and worst months for the patients. Index.
"Biopollutants in aerial environment are the source domain for causing diseases in crops, humans and animals. Concentration of Aerial Biological Units (ABU) in air depends on geo-graphical location, weather conditions and local source, if any. Along with a critical review on chronological developments of aeromycology in India, a key for visual identification of air borne particulates and a comprehensive details of their occurrence, distribution and diurnal patterns of sixty fungal taxa belonging to different taxonomic groups, the impact of ABU on disease developments in different crops Luffa, Cylindrica, Cajans Cajan and nine varieties of Brassica Junecea has been represented and clue for specific disease forecasting is discussed. The health view point of human population has also been covered mainly in relation to allergenic manifestations, otomycosis and onycomycosis caused by ABU." (jacket)