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Cross-pollination Improves Fruit Quantity and Quality Across Northern and Southern Highbush Blueberry Cultivars

HortScience
Cultivated blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) are partially self-sterile because of early-acting inbreeding depression and, as such, they may set fruit with self-pollination, but with a lower quantity and quality than that with cross-pollination.
Stan Chabert, Lisa W. DeVetter, Rufus Isaacs, Shiala Naranjo Morales, Jenna Walters, Rachel E. Mallinger   +5 more
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Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali, Abdurrahim Yilmaz, Meysam Keshavarz, Jinshi Zhao, Ara Darzi, Eric Yeatman, Burak Temelkuran   +6 more
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Pollen limitation and dependence on cross-pollination in borage (Borago officinalis L.) in the Pampas region of Argentina

Journal of Pollination Ecology
Borago officinalis L. is an insect-pollinated crop valued for its seed oil. While described as self-compatible, the extent to which its reproductive success depends on pollinator-mediated cross-pollination and whether it experiences pollen limitation in
Martina Matos, Mariano Devoto
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Pollination Strategies to Improve Fruit Set in Orchards of ‘Manzanilloʼ Olive in a Nontraditional Producing Country, Mexico

HortTechnology, 2019
In countries new to producing ‘Manzanillo’ olive trees (Olea europaea), free cross-pollination is often insufficient to obtain high levels of fruit set. An appropriate pollination design is therefore essential to ensure a timely, abundant, and compatible
Alberto Sánchez-Estrada , Julián Cuevas   +1 more
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Potential application of the bumblebee foraging recruitment pheromone for commercial greenhouse pollination [PDF]

, 2009
Commercial bumblebee colonies are important crop pollinators. Here we assess whether application of artificial foraging recruitment pheromone can increase foraging activity in Bombus terrestris colonies on a relevant timescale for commercial pollination.
Raine, Nigel E., Lars Chittka, Molet, M., Mathieu Molet, Chittka, Lars, Chittka, L, Raine, NE, Nigel E. Raine, Raine, N. E., Molet, M, Chittka, L., Molet, Mathieu   +11 more
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Cell‐Based Biohybrid Micro/Nanorobots for Biotherapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review systematically evaluates cell‐based biohybrid micro/nanorobots (CB‐BMRs), highlighting their cell selection criteria, fabrication strategies, and diverse actuation modes. Furthermore, it surveys the promising therapeutic applications of CB‐BMRs in targeted cancer, thrombosis, and inflammation treatments, while comprehensively discussing ...
Lin Wang, Chenlu Liu, Yu Zhao, Chuanhua Li, Xuyang Chen, Shixiao Ding, Lizhou Dai, Guokun Wang, Tianlong Li, Jiaxin Li, Xuejia Liu, Haocheng Wang   +11 more
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Bioecological and Behavioral Interaction between Pollinating Bees and the Pioneer Shrub Ludwigia nervosa in Degraded Area Suggests an Exotic Bee as Its Major Pollinator

Biology, 2021
The flowers of plants of the genus Ludwigia are an important source of food for several species of bees. In the current study, we conducted an experiment with the aim to describe the reproductive biology and phenology of L.
Eliana Aparecida Ferreira, Samuel Boff, Sandra S. Verza, Rosilda Mara Mussury   +3 more
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Magnetically Actuated Microrobot for Drug Delivery: Current Progress and Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Magnetically actuated microrobots are reshaping targeted drug delivery through wireless propulsion, programmable materials, and localized therapeutic release. This review examines how fabrication, body material selection, structural architecture, loading mechanisms, and imaging‐guided control converge to enable microrobotic therapies while identifying ...
Yang Yang, David J. Cappelleri
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Effect of Simulated Autogamy and Allogamy on the Success of Cephalanthera longifolia and Cephalanthera rubra (Orchidaceae) Fruit Set

Diversity
Detailed knowledge of reproductive traits and success is essential for the effective conservation of rare and endangered species. It has been reported that Cephalanthera longifolia and C.
Laurynas Taura, Zigmantas Gudžinskas
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The kind of pollination and ability to parthenocarpy of pepino (Solanum muricatum Ait.)

Folia Horticulturae, 2008
The objective of the research was to assess a grade of parthenocarpic fruit and fruitsetting following cross-pollination and self-pollination in pepino plants (Solanum muricatum Ait.).
Kowalczyk Katarzyna
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