Nectar phenolics drive cross visits between dimorphic flowers by honey bees

	Nectar phenolics drive cross visits between dimorphic flowers by honey bees
	Zhao, Guangyin ; Li, Jianjun ; Di, Nayan ; Liu, Fanglin
刊名	JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH
	2014
卷号	53 期号:4 页码:489-492
ISSN号	0021-8839
中文摘要	Broccoli (Brassica oleracea) is widely grown. For hybrid seed production, farmers use a hermaphrodite parent, conventionally called "male", to cross with a male sterile parent, or "female". We fed Apis mellifera colonies with 30 % sucrose solution with (P-fed) and without (S-fed) para-hydroxybenzoic acid (a phenolic acid commonly found in nectar), and compared the number of pollen foragers between the P- and S-fed colonies. As compared to the S-fed colonies, the P-fed colonies had higher proportions of foragers visiting the male plants for pollen. Also, they had higher proportions of pollen foragers that switched to visit the female plants. Our study suggests that nectar phenolics may be adaptively suited to augment outcrossing pollination by honey bees.
学科主题	Entomology
原文出处	10.3896/IBRA.1.53.4.14
语种	英语
公开日期	2017-06-12
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.xtbg.org.cn/handle/353005/10483]
专题	西双版纳热带植物园_其他
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, Guangyin,Li, Jianjun,Di, Nayan,et al. Nectar phenolics drive cross visits between dimorphic flowers by honey bees[J]. JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH,2014,53(4):489-492.
APA	Zhao, Guangyin,Li, Jianjun,Di, Nayan,&Liu, Fanglin.(2014).Nectar phenolics drive cross visits between dimorphic flowers by honey bees.JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH,53(4),489-492.
MLA	Zhao, Guangyin,et al."Nectar phenolics drive cross visits between dimorphic flowers by honey bees".JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH 53.4(2014):489-492.