Agronomy, 2022 Cultivated yam (D. rotundata) is a staple tuber crop in West Africa whose sexual reproduction control remains largely unknown despite its importance for plant breeding programs. In this paper, we compared self-pollination, intracultivar cross-pollination
Narcisse Denadi +6 more
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Spatiotemporal Variation in Pollination Deficits in an Insect-Pollinated Dioecious Crop
Plants, 2021 Inadequate quantity and quality of pollen reaching the stigmas decreases the sexual reproductive output of plants, compromising yield. Still, the current extent of pollen limitation affecting yield (i.e., pollination deficits) is poorly quantified.
Helena Castro +7 more
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Spatial Monitoring and Insect Behavioural Analysis Using Computer Vision for Precision Pollination [PDF]
International Journal of Computer Vision (2022), 2022 Insects are the most important global pollinator of crops and play a key role in maintaining the sustainability of natural ecosystems. Insect pollination monitoring and management are therefore essential for improving crop production and food security. Computer vision facilitated pollinator monitoring can intensify data collection over what is feasible
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Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees? [PDF]
, 2011 Pollination services are known to provide substantial benefits to human populations and agriculture in particular. Although many species are known to provide pollination services, honeybees (Apis mellifera) are often assumed to provide the majority of ...
Bailey, Alison P. +3 more
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Mating system and female reproductive success of the endemic and endangered epiphyte Rhynchostele cervantesii (Orchidaceae) in a cloud forest in Michoacan, Mexico [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background and aims – The Orchidaceae family is vulnerable, because of the destruction of their habitat, as well as the extraction of individuals from natural populations.
Rosa Magaña Lemus +2 more
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Using citizen science to monitor pollination services [PDF]
, 2015 1. Pollination by insects is a vital ecosystem service and the need for its assessment is increasing in recognition and political pressure, but there are currently no large-scale systematic monitoring schemes in place to measure the direct provision of ...
Ahrné +34 more
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The Last Mile: Using Local Knowledge to Identify Barriers to Sustainable Grain Legume Production
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Grain legumes (or pulses–annual leguminous crops that are harvested solely for their dried seeds such as lentils or chickpeas) are essential for sustainable cropping systems.
Barbara M. Smith +6 more
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Scale dependent drivers of wild bee diversity in tropical heterogeneous agricultural landscapes
Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Summary Factors associated with agricultural intensification, for example, loss of seminatural vegetation and pesticide use has been shown to adversely affect the bee community.
Parthiba Basu +6 more
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IEEE Access, 2023 In greenhouse tomato cultivation, three primary methods of flower pollination exist: insect pollination, physical pollination by vibrating flowers, and artificial pollination using hormone-based chemicals. Insect pollination, the natural method, involves
Takefumi Hiraguri +7 more
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Competition, trait-mediated facilitation, and the structure of plant-pollinator communities [PDF]
Journal of Theoretical Biology. Vol. 440, pp. 42-57 (2018), 2017 In plant-pollinator communities many pollinators are potential generalists and their preferences for certain plants can change quickly in response to changes in plant and pollinator densities. These changes in preferences affect coexistence within pollinator guilds as well as within plant guilds.
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