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Pollen trapping and sugar syrup feeding of honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) enhance pollen collection of less preferred flowers

Pear (Pyrus bretschneideri) is characterized by being self-incompatible and dependent on cross-pollination to set fruit. Honeybee (Apis mellifera) is considered the most important pollinator of pear. Nevertheless, limited pollen transfer has been cited as the main cause of poor fruit set in many pea...

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Autores principales: Gemeda, Tolera Kumsa, Li, Jilian, Luo, Shudong, Yang, Huipeng, Jin, Tingting, Huang, Jiaxing, Wu, Jie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30208089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203648