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Pollination Services of Mango Flower Pollinators [PDF]
Journal of Insect Science, 2015 Measuring wild pollinator services in agricultural production is very important in the context of sustainable management. In this study, we estimated the contribution of native pollinators to mango fruit set production of two mango cultivars Mangifera indica (L). cv. 'Sala' and 'Chok Anan'. Visitation rates of pollinators on mango flowers and number of
Abdul Rahim Hamdan +4 more
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Rapid character scoring and tabulation of large leaf‐image libraries using Adobe Bridge
Applications in Plant Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 6, November-December 2022., 2022 Abstract Premise Digital image libraries are an integral part of specimen‐based research. However, coding and extracting metadata for hundreds of specimens on a personal computer can be complex. In addition, most existing workflows require downsampling or platform switching and do not link character data directly to the images.
Gabriella Rossetto‐Harris +4 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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Whole‐genomic DNA amplifications from individually isolated sweet sorghum microspores
Applications in Plant Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 6, November-December 2022., 2022 Abstract Premise Sorghum is a multi‐use crop, the efficient breeding of which requires the development of new genetic tools. One such tool could be the genetic assessment of free microspores, which are released just after the tetrad stage of pollen development.
Aron M. Felts +3 more
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Review: Pollination, Pollinated and Pollinators Interaction in Pakistan
Journal of Bioresource Management, 2014 The agriculture sector is important in the overall economy and export earnings of Pakistan. Pollination is an essential ecosystem service that depends on symbiosis between species, the pollinated and the pollinator. Animal mediated pollination contributes to the sexual production of over 90% species of modern angiosperms.
Irshad, Mohammad, Stephen, Elizabeth
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Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Pollinator declines, changes in land use and climate-induced shifts in phenology have the potential to seriously affect ecosystem function and food security by disrupting pollination services provided by insects. Much of the current research focuses on bees, or groups other insects together as ‘non-bee pollinators’, obscuring the relative contribution ...
Toby Doyle +5 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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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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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2013 Social learning occurs when one individual learns from another, mainly conspecific, often by observation, imitation, or communication. Using artificial flowers, we studied social learning by allowing test bumblebees to (a) see dead bumblebees arranged in
Hamida B. Mirwan, Peter G. Kevan
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