Pollen records in the air can be used to estimate the future crop, mainly in the case of anemophilus species.

Once the pollen season is finished, the total sum of pollen grains recorded gives an idea, with the aid of predictive formulas, of the possible fruit production with an advance of some months. This is very useful to plan the harvest and to manage the product. Thanks to these studies, very useful models have been produced for fruits of commercial interest as grape, olive and acorn.

Our research group has published several papers about olive and acorn.

Prevention of allergy is one of the main applications of the study of pollen concentrations in the air. The forecast of pollen levels in the air for the next days is of great interest to prevent symptoms, adopt the adequate treatment and to adjust the dose according to the pollen counts.

This information is of interest for patients suffering from allergy and for professionals related with this subject.

Nowadays, pollen data bases are helpful to observe possible changes in pollen seasons. These changes could be related with the increase in temperature cause by the climate change. These studies are possible thanks data bases with pollen information of more than 20 years.

The main objective is to detect a possible advance in the start of the pollen season cause by the increase in temperatures and therefore the detection of longer pollen seasons. This fact has been demonstrated in Córdoba for olive and oak.