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Floral Biology and pollination requirements of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)

Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, 2014
This study aimed to investigate the floral biology and pollination requirements of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.), cultivar CNPA G2. The study was carried out at Barbalha, State of Ceará, and consisted of two phases: floral biology and pollination ...
Patrícia Barreto de Andrade, Breno Magalhães Freitas, Epifânica Emanuela de Macêdo Rocha, José Antônio de Lima, Leonardo Lopes Rufino   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard, Andrew Greenman, Stacia Stetkiewicz, Bouwe Dijkstra, Frances Bowen, Richard Field   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arbosana Olive Is Self-Incompatible, but Inter-Compatible with Some Other Low-Vigor Olive Cultivars

Horticulturae
Trendy high-density olive fields are often monovarietal orchards, mostly using the cultivar Arbequina. However, Arbequina shows a strong self-incompatibility response, and its yields depend on wind cross-pollination, which is not always available.
Julián Cuevas, Fernando M. Chiamolera, Virginia Pinillos, Francisco Rodríguez, Irene Salinas, Diego Cabello, Alenka Baruca Arbeiter, Dunja Bandelj, Marina Raboteg Božiković, Gabriela Vuletin Selak   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self fertility of pear varieties conditioned by natural self pollination (autogamy)

International Journal of Horticultural Science, 2000
Authors studied the autofertility depending on natural self pollination (autogamy) in 59 pear cultivars during 4 seasons at three locations with different ecological conditions (Helvetia, Kecskemet-Kisfai, Keszthely).
J. Nyéki, M. Soltész, J. Iváncsics
doaj   +1 more source

When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive Success after Self-pollination and Cross-pollination of Olive Cultivars in Croatia

, 2011
Olive orchard productivity largely depends on the choice of planted cultivars andtheirpollinationneeds.Orcharddesigns inCroatiaarechangingbecauseanumberof valuable foreign olive cultivars, mostly Italian, have been introduced in this region in the last ...
G. V. Selak, S. Perica, S. G. Ban, M. Radunić, M. Poljak   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Digital‐Sustainability Disconnect: A Test of Strategic Alignment in the Circular Economy Transition

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study challenges the common assumption that digital and sustainability transformations are naturally synergistic. Integrating signaling theory and the dynamic capability view, we argue that for many firms, particularly traditional SMEs, these initiatives are pursued on separate, unaligned strategic tracks, creating a “signaling‐substance ...
Nicolas Depetris‐Chauvin, Marta Fernández‐Olmos, Wenbo Hu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

METHOD FOR OVERCOMING THE PASSION FRUIT SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura
The methodology of self-pollination of passion fruit flowers at anthesis after stigma excision was proposed. This method was compared with self-pollination procedures at anthesis and at the stage of flower bud.
JOSÉ SEVERINO DE LIRA JÚNIOR, CLÁUDIO HORST BRUCKNER, PEDRO CRESCÊNCIO SOUZA CARNEIRO   +2 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source