A palynological database of pollen morphology for the assessment of the bee products quality
About
The Regional Pollen Database (RePLy) is in a testing since April 20, 2026, its functionality and input of records are being evaluated. Thus, the information is limited yet. This applies to the portfolio of plant species, characteristics of plants, pollen, bee pollen loads, and images. Data will be entered on the fly. Information may contain inaccuracies or textual errors. The workgroup will continuously clean and correct the content. Thank You for understanding.RePLy – Regional Pollen Library as palynological database presents the results of pollen analyses of a selected collection of plants found primarily in the Central European region.Regional Pollen Library is the result and output of the project „Creation of a regional database of pollen morphology for the assessment of the bee products quality“ which was co-financed by the governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund (Project No. 22420139).
Structure of a plant species entry (catalog sheet):
taxonomy
homotypic synonyms
names in selected languages
detailed description of pollen grains
identification of sources for bees
identification of pollen color
description of bee pollen loads
gallery (habitus, plant parts – flowers/inflorescence/fruit, SEM and LM images of pollen grains, images of bee pollen loads)
reference bibliographic sources
The RePLy database is available free of charge; the data and results are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY).
List of plant species selected for the first phase of evaluation (alphabetical order).
Partners
Coordinator
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources, Institute of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Biodiversity Convesation and Biosafety Assoc. Prof. Ján Brindza, CSc.
Address: Trieda A. Hlinku 2, 94976 Nitra, Slovak Republic Website: https://www.uniag.sk
Arboretum and Institute of Physiography in Bolestraszyce
Address: Svrčia 14, Bratislava, 842 08, Slovakia Website: https://vcelari.sk/
Website and Database
Határ Ľuboš (Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Centre of Computer Technology and Information) Ľubica Jamborová (Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovak Agricultural Library)
RePLy Website Logo Authors
Marina Kors (Public Organization "Foundation of Women Beekeepers", Ukraine) and Olga Grygorieva (M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of NAS of Ukraine)
Ďurišová, Ľ., Ostrolucká, M.G., Ostrovský, R., Chudíková, R., Oravec, A., Adamchuk, L., Shevtsova, T., & Jamborová, Ľ. (2026, March 31). Pyrus communis L. In: Regional Pollen Library (RePLy). A palynological database. https://reply.uniag.sk