Pollen-Associated Microbiome Correlates with Pollution Parameters and the Allergenicity of Pollen.

ABSTRACT: Pollen allergies have been rapidly increasing over the last decades. Many allergenic proteins and non-allergenic adjuvant compounds of pollen are involved in the plant defense against environmental or microbial stress. The first aim of this study was to analyze and compare the colonizing microbes on allergenic pollen. The second aim was to investigate detectable correlations between pollen microbiota and parameters of air pollution or pollen allergenicity. To reach these aims, bacterial and fungal DNA was isolated from pollen samples of timothy grass (Phleum pratense, n = 20) and birch trees (Betula pendula, n = 55). With this isolated DNA, a terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis was performed. One result was that the microbial diversity on birch tree and timothy grass

SUBMITTER: Obersteiner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4765992 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature