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Supplementary honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) pollination enhances fruit growth rate and fruit yield in Paeonia ostii (family: Paeoniaceae).

PLoS ONE, 2022
Insufficient pollination leads to low and unstable production of oil tree peony. Supplementary managed honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) in agricultural ecosystems is a common practice for addressing the problem.
Kaiyue Zhang, Yuying Li, Kaili Sun, Junyi Bao, Chunling He, Xiaogai Hou   +5 more
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Comparison of Pollen-Collecting Abilities between Apis mellifera L. and Bombus terrestris L. in the Oil Tree Peony Field

Horticulturae, 2023
The lack of pollinators in the oil tree peony field was a serious problem for the seed yield. In the preliminary studies, we found that the seed rate of oil tree peonies was significantly improved by supplementing bees during the flowering stages in the ...
Junyi Bao, Kaiyue Zhang, Xiangnan He, Zhanfeng Chen, Junying Wang, Chunling He, Xiaogai Hou   +6 more
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Foraging Behavior and Pollination Efficiency of Apis mellifera L. on the Oil Tree Peony ‘Feng Dan’ (Paeonia ostii T. Hong et J.X. Zhang)

Insects, 2019
To solve the issue of insufficient pollinating of insects for the oil tree peony ‘Feng Dan’ (Paeonia ostii T. Hong et J.X. Zhang) and improve its seed set and yield, we conducted observations from 2017 to 2018 to investigate the relationship ...
Chunling He, Kaiyue Zhang, Xiaogai Hou, Dongbo Han, Shuaibing Wang   +4 more
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Fatty Acid and Associated Gene Expression Analyses of Three Tree Peony Species Reveal Key Genes for α-Linolenic Acid Synthesis in Seeds

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
The increasing demand for healthy edible oil has generated the need to identify promising oil crops. Tree peony (Paeonia section Moutan DC.) is a woody oil crop with α-linolenic acid (ALA) contributing for 45% of the total fatty acid (FA) content in ...
Qing-Yu Zhang, Rui Yu, Li-Hang Xie, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Aruna Kilaru, Li-Xin Niu, Yan-Long Zhang   +6 more
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Effect of Cultivation Methods on Seed Yield Traits, Oil Yield, and Fatty Acid Compositions of Cultivated Paeonia ostii

HortScience, 2021
Paeonia ostii is recognized as an important oilseed tree peony species with potential as a raw material source for cosmetic and health care products, strong seed setting capacity, high seed oil yield, and abundant omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Tong Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Qi Qiaoi, Wei Liu, Xiaogai Hou   +4 more
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Fatty acid analysis in the seeds of 50 Paeonia ostii individuals from the same population

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2018
Tree peony seeds are rich in α-linolenic acid (ALA), and the peony seed oil is now being produced in China. Paeonia ostii is the most widely used tree peony species for oil extraction, which is commercially called Fengdan and treated as a single cultivar.
Xiao-bao WEI, Jing-qi XUE, Shun-li WANG, Yu-qian XUE, Huan LIN, Xing-feng SHAO, Dong-hui XU, Xiu-xin ZHANG   +7 more
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In Vitro Immature Embryo Culture of Paeonia ostii ‘Feng Dan’

HortScience, 2022
Paeonia ostii ‘Feng Dan’ is an economically important, multipurpose woody plant in terms of its medical, ornamental, and oil values; however, there is a noticeable contradiction between the increasing demands and the lack of excellent germplasm resources
Li Xu1, Fangyun Cheng, Yuan Zhong
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Transcriptomic analysis of α-linolenic acid content and biosynthesis in Paeonia ostii fruits and seeds

BMC Genomics, 2021
Background Paeonia ostii is a potentially important oilseed crop because its seed yield is high, and the seeds are rich in α-linolenic acid (ALA). However, the molecular mechanisms underlying ALA biosynthesis during seed kernel, seed testa, and fruit ...
Shui-Yan Yu, Xiao Zhang, Liang-Bo Huang, Yu-Ping Lyu, Ying Zhang, Zu-Jie Yao, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Jun-Hui Yuan, Yong-Hong Hu   +8 more
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Health Benefits of Dietary Tree Peony Seed Oil in a High Fat Diet Hamster Model

Functional Foods in Health and Disease, 2017
Background: Tree peony (Paeonia ostii) seed oil is rich in different unsaturated fatty acids, including monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). Health benefits of this edible plant oil as a whole are barely known yet.
Zhiqiang Zheng, Jigang Han, Yingyi Mao, Xue Tang, Yan Guan, Yonghong Hu   +5 more
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Bumblebee pollination ensures the stability of both yield and quality of the woody oil crop Paeonia ostii ‘Fengdan’

Basic and Applied Ecology
Oil tree peony is a unique woody oil crop found exclusively in China. Its seed oil is a highly nutritious edible vegetable oil. However, its seed production varies greatly and is often low. Oil tree peony is a plant that relies on insects for pollination,
Kaiyue Zhang, Xiang Wang, Junyi Bao, Xiangnan He, Yang Lei, Chunling He, Xiaogai Hou   +6 more
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