Pollination by native bees achieves high fruit quantity and quality of highbush blueberry: a sustainable alternative to managed pollinators
IntroductionBlueberry is one of the most relevant buzz-pollinated crops worldwide, and Chile is the most important global producer of fresh blueberries during wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere. Non-buzzing bees, such as honey bees, may provide suboptimal services compared with bees capable of bu...
Main Authors: | Benito Cortés-Rivas, Víctor Hugo Monzón, Juliana Ordones Rego, José Neiva Mesquita-Neto |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-05-01
|
Series: | Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1142623/full |
Similar Items
-
Biomechanical properties of a buzz-pollinated flower
by: Vinicius Lourenço Garcia Brito, et al.
Published: (2020-09-01) -
Differences in Pollination Efficiency Among Three Bee Species in a Greenhouse and Their Effects on Yield and Fruit Quality of Northern Highbush ‘Bluecrop’ Blueberry
by: Qi Sun, et al.
Published: (2021-04-01) -
Transformer Models improve the acoustic recognition of buzz-pollinating bee species
by: Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira, et al.
Published: (2025-05-01) -
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) specialized pollination is isolated from neighboring plants and pollinators
by: Rijo Gabriela, et al.
Published: (2022-05-01) -
Importance of bees in pollination of Solanum lycopersicum L. (Solanaceae) in open-field of the Southeast of Minas Gerais State, Brazil
by: Ronaldo Vinícius-Silva, et al.