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Vertical transmission of honey bee viruses in a Belgian queen breeding program [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The Member States of European Union are encouraged to improve the general conditions for the production and marketing of apicultural products. In Belgium, programmes on the restocking of honey bee hives have run for many years.
de Graaf, Dirk, De Smet, Lina, Ravoet, Jorgen, Wenseleers, Tom   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Climate change and perennial crop production: Evidence of yield impact and adaptation in California

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Perennial crops are economically important. They contribute to food security, providing essential nutrients that are often lacking in annual crops, and provide additional environmental benefits compared with annual crops. Despite their importance, empirical research on the impacts of climate change and adaptation on perennial crops remains ...
Yuanyuan Wen, Wei Zhang, Julian M. Alston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beeswax-Based Tools for Queen Rearing Without Grafting Larvae for Apis mellifera

Agriculture
Queen bees form the core of honeybee colonies for reproduction, and their quality is the most critical factor affecting their reproductive and productive performance.
Gao Zhang, Weiyu Yan, Zhijiang Zeng, Xiaobo Wu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Platform Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: A Framework for Industry 5.0 Integration

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A comprehensive framework is developed for adopting Platform Business Model Innovation (PBMI) to enhance sustainable performance in the Industry 5.0 (I5.0) era. While PBMI plays a growing role in corporate transformation, tensions persist between profit‐driven objectives and broader sustainability imperatives.
Mohamed Ashmel Mohamed Hashim, Issam Tlemsani, Ansarullah Tantry, Songdi Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Absence of Nepotism in Waggle Communication of Honeybees (Apis mellifera)

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2020
The polyandrous mating behavior of the honeybee queen increases the genetic variability among her worker offspring and the workers of particular subfamilies tend to have a genetic predisposition for tasks preference.
Zhang Zu Yun, Li Zhen, Huang Qiang, Jiang Wu Jun, Zeng Zhi Jiang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential of Bee Pollen as a Nutraceutical And/Or Functional Ingredient for Metabolic Syndrome Management: In Vitro Antioxidant, Anti‐Inflammatory, and Digestive Enzyme Inhibitory Activities

Food Chemistry International, EarlyView.
Bee pollen samples from China and Spain exhibited in vitro antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and digestive enzyme inhibitory activities due to their composition, suggesting their potential as a nutraceutical or functional ingredient to help counteract oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and metabolic disorders.
Adriana Maite Fernández‐Fernández, Victoria Olt, Jessica Báez, Marcelo Miraballes, Melissa Romero, Cecilia Dauber, Ignacio Vieitez, Estela Santos, Adriana Gámbaro, Alejandra Medrano   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Artificial Sugar Supplementation on the Composition and Nutritional Potency of Honey from Apis cerana

Insects
In the global apiculture industry, reward feeding and supplementary feeding are essential for maintaining bee colonies. Beekeepers provide artificial supplements to their colonies, typically in the form of either a honey–water solution or sugar syrup ...
Yueyang Hu, Jianhui Liu, Qizhong Pan, Xinxin Shi, Xiaobo Wu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Changes in Alternative Splicing in Apis Mellifera Bees Fed Apis Cerana Royal Jelly

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2014
The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a social insect characterized by caste differentiation in which the queen bee and worker bees display marked differences in morphology, behavior, reproduction, and longevity despite their identical genomes.
Shi Yuan Yuan, Huang Zachary Y., Wu Xiao Bo, Wang Zi Long, Yan Wei Yu, Zeng Zhi Jiang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utility of ultra-rapid real-time PCR for detection and prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in ticks

BMC Veterinary Research, 2022
Background Rickettsia spp. are important tick-borne pathogens that cause various human and animal diseases worldwide. A tool for rapid and accurate detection of the pathogens from its vectors is necessary for prevention of Rickettsioses propagation in ...
A-Tai Truong, Bo-Ram Yun, Mi-Sun Yoo, Jiyeon Lim, Subin Min, Soon-Seek Yoon, Young-Min Yun, Jong-Taek Kim, Yun Sang Cho   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Error correction and diversity analysis of population mixtures determined by NGS [PDF]

, 2014
The impetus for this work was the need to analyse nucleotide diversity in a viral mix taken from honeybees. The paper has two findings. First, a method for correction of next generation sequencing error in the distribution of nucleotides at a site is ...
Burroughs, Nigel J., Evans, David J., Ryabov, Eugene V., Wood, Graham R.   +3 more
core   +3 more sources