Some biodeteriorating air-borne fungi in and around Lucknow, India

Asha Khandelwal; Rashmi Tewary; Lily Misra; Rashmi Saxena

doi:10.54991/jop.2002.1744

Authors

Asha Khandelwal Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
Rashmi Tewary Ram Nivas, Moti Nagar, Lucknow
Lily Misra 39, Ratanada Extension, Jodhpur
Rashmi Saxena Chemistry Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.2002.1744

Keywords:

Air-borne fungi, Biodeterioration, Cultural properties, Lucknow

Abstract

The paper presents the result of qualitative and quantitative analyses of mycoflora in the air of Lucknow city and adjoining areas. Burkard slide sampler and Andersen two-stage volumetric samplers were employed for air sampling at forty places of Lucknow at different times of the year from January 1997 to February 1998. As many as thirty-five types of fungal spores and twenty-nine types of fungal colonies were registered.

It has been envisaged that certain fungi such as Alternaria, Aspergillus, Chaetomium, Cladosporium, Curvularia, Diplodia, Epicoccum, Fusarium, Nigrospora, Penicillium. Rhizopus, Torula, Trichoderma, Trichothecium, etc., prevalent in the air are associated with the biodeterioration of cultural properties.