Hi Andrew

I'd have to know more about your question but we are doing something simiilar with grass pollen in the PollerGEN project http://pollergen.bangor.ac.uk/

cheers

Nick

Rotorod Sampler or Burkard spore trap are commonly used.. I tried to develop a spore capture tool according to their electrical charge, you know like the principle of the electrostatic sprayer, but I stopped because I had other research on the endophytic fungi of forest trees ....

But I would like to resume work for the follow-up of the anthracnosis (caused by Apiognomonia sp) of holm oak (Quercus ilex)

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the reply. I will look your pollen project up.

We have a method for the rapid counting and sizing of particulates. However, we want to use the technique to identify specific plant fungal pathogens that are airborne as spores in protected growing. We are hoping that being able to identify increases in numbers and there location will allow targeted deployment of biological controls and also a novel spore destruction method we have access too.

Fungal pathogens are a serious problem in Horticulture/protected growing. These data sets can hopefully be integrated with the whole life cycle and importantly productivity of protected growing, there is a real big data opportunity.

We wanted an academic partner who could tag the surface of the spore with a unique florescent marker, the markers are available but binding them to the spore surface is the key challenge. Do you think your methods can be extended to fungal spores?

Contact me at [email protected] or via linkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-goddard-73785817/

Qussama,

We have a very a sophisticated method for spore counting and identification to particle type, this is also able to size particles.

Spore trap data is slow and not immediately digitised.

We need to make the count specific to fungal spores. Do you know anything about the unique surface chemistry of fungal spores?

Andrew