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M Bensoussan

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PubMed1987

[Pollen counts (from Ambrosia and Artemisia) in Lyon-Bron from 1982 to 1985].

The purpose of this work is to distinguish the broad outlines of the pollen calendar in the Lyons area for the 5th year, using the same method (P. COUR) and the same location--Lyon-Bron weather station. Weekly data is given for 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 (1986 data was not complete at the time of the conference, October 1986). This work is the fruit of numerical counts integrated into a data processing program which enables pollens tested and not tested in allergology to be identified. In Lyon, we observe 3 pollen seasons: early Spring (TREES), Spring (TREES and GRAMINEAE) and Summer-Autumn (TREES, GRAMINEAE, and COMPOSITAE). During the late the following are present: Artemisia vulgaris (last 10 days of July), RAGWEED (mid-August-1st fortnight of October), Artemisia annua (end September-early October). The particularity of our region is that not only ragweed pollen is collected but also two categories of Mugwort pollen, at different periods.

Air Pollutants↗
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Comparison of volatile compound production in fruit body and in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus identified by submerged and solid-state cultures.

Comparative analyses of the production of volatile compounds by Pleurotus ostreatus JMO.95 fruit body and its corresponding mycelium grown in liquid, on agar surface, and on solid support cultures were carried out by dynamic headspace concentration using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and gas chromatography sniffing. The aroma produced by fruit body was owing essentially to the presence of octan-3-one and, to a lesser extent, to octan-3-ol. Other compounds, such as oct-1-en-3-ol, oct-1-en, 2-methylbutanol, and alpha-pinene were also present in low concentrations. Comparison of aromatic spectra of the fruit body with that of mycelia obtained under different culture conditions indicated that the main aromatic compounds present in the P. ostreatus fruit body and mycelium were produced in the same proportions on agar surface and on solid support culture, but not under submerged conditions.

Agar↗
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[Numerical taxonomy of a thermophilic "Bacillus" species isolated from West African rice soils (author's transl)].

Fifty-seven strains of endospore-forming thermophilic bacteria, 37 of which were capable of denitrification, were isolated from rice soils of West Africa. They were compared with 17 strains of similar bacteria from culture collections, utilizing a total of 123 morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics. A numerical analysis was performed using the complete linkage-clustering method and the Khi2 test. Seventy-five percent (55 strains) could be included in 12 groups at a taxonomic distance of 0.015. Wild strains of denitrifiers issued in phenons 8 to 12 and strains of phenon 4 (not denitrifying) were related to the named strains of phenons 1 and 7 (Bacillus stearothermophilus). Twenty-two wild strains, and 5 strains from culture collections, were only thermotolerating without growth at 65 degrees C. The strains of phenon 3 were related to the 3 named strains of B. coagulans. Phenons 5 and 6 were composed of strains related to B. circulans. The strains of phenon 2 denitrified and showed a swollen central endospore; they were closely related to B. brevis. The denitrifying thermophilic strains isolated from rice soils (phenons 8 to 12) were related to the first group (B. kaustophilus) of Walker and Wolf but their base compositions of DNA were significantly different from those found for the reference strains.

Africa, Western↗