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Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Pollination improves the yield of most crop species and contributes to one-third of global crop production, but comprehensive benefits including crop quality are still unknown.
B. Klatt +6 more
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How Much Area of a Pear Orchard Can One Honey Bee Colony Pollinate?
AgriculturePear trees, though self-pollinating, are self-incompatible and depend on insect pollination—primarily by honey bees. The optimal density of honey bee colonies per unit area in pear orchards remains uncertain, hindering scientific pollination management ...
Xinying Qu +8 more
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Bee and non-bee pollinator importance for local food security
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 Pollinators are critical for food security; however, their contribution to the pollination of locally important crops is still unclear, especially for non-bee pollinators. We reviewed the diversity, conservation status, and role of bee and non-bee pollinators in 83 different crops described either as important for the global food market or of local ...
Requier, Fabrice +5 more
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Mason bees and honey bees synergistically enhance fruit set in sweet cherry orchards
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Mason bees (Osmia spp.) are efficient fruit tree pollinators that can be encouraged to occupy and breed in artificial nesting material. In sweet cherry orchards, they are occasionally used as an alternative managed pollinator as a replacement for or in ...
Julia Osterman +8 more
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An improved optimization technique for estimation of solar photovoltaic parameters [PDF]
, 2017 The nonlinear current vs voltage (I-V) characteristics of solar PV make its modelling difficult. Optimization techniques are the best tool for identifying the parameters of nonlinear models.
Alam +35 more
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Bee pollination in vegetables: current status, challenges and prospects
Circular Agricultural SystemsVegetables are very important for human health in the era of nutritional security because they are rich in vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and dietary fibers.
Pratap A. Divekar +2 more
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Bio‐Based Wax Interfaces for Droplet Energy Harvesting at Fluoropolymer‐Like Output Levels
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Replacing unsustainable fluorinated polymers in droplet‐based energy harvesters is usually limited by low power outputs, but carefully selected bio‐based polymers are capable of creating fluoropolymer‐like voltage outputs. Abstract Droplet impact and rebound on solid surfaces has emerged as a promising method for energy harvesting, typically ...
Behnam Kamare +4 more
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Economics of land‐based carbon mitigation
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agricultural land holds tremendous potential to contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emission goals by providing low carbon renewable energy to displace fossil fuels and by serving as a sink for sequestering carbon in the soil with climate‐smart practices. This potential is, however, far from being realized.
Madhu Khanna
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Honey bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops. Pathogens and other factors have been implicated in high annual losses of honey bee colonies in North America and some European countries.
William Glenny +5 more
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American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Flowers that present their anthers and stigma in close proximity can achieve precise animal‐mediated pollen transfer, but risk self‐pollination. One evolutionary solution is reciprocal herkogamy. Reciprocity of anther and style positions among different plants (i.e., a genetic dimorphism) is common in distylous plants, but very rare in
Steven D. Johnson +5 more
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