Development of Mechanical Dry-Pollen Application to Kiwifruit

Ferguson, A. M.; Pusch, W.M.

doi:10.17660/actahortic.1992.297.39

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“…Studying the pollen grains shape, in Table 1 can be observed that most of them are ellipsoidal, as Schmid (1978), Dickison et al (1982), Ferguson and Pusch (1991) mentioned in their research.…”

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Romanian Kiwifruit Breeding Program - Preliminary Study of Fifteen Male Hybrids for Selection as Pollinators

Iliescu¹,

Popa²,

Meena³

et al. 2022

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Kiwi is a new fruit that can be grown in Romania. A common Italian-Romanian kiwifruit breeding program was initiated in 1993. For pollinator (male) kiwi plants, breeding programs involve the selection of elite plants with long flowering period and high pollen germination rate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the pollen grains from fifteen Romanian kiwifruit hybrids for identifying the most suitable pollinators for kiwi female selections released from our breeding program. The fresh pollen grains were collected during pollination period (2018-2020), in Petri dishes, maintained at room temperature for 12 hours, and then placed in 15% sucrose solution for germination. At different time interval: 4, 8, 12 and respectively, 24 hours, several measurements were done. Four genotypes – R0P3, R0P6, R2P8 and R3P9, which recorded over 90% germinability after 24 hours, have been selected for further field tests, including artificial pollination and compatibility tests with the kiwi female selections.

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Romanian Kiwifruit Breeding Program - Preliminary Study of Fifteen Male Hybrids for Selection as Pollinators

Iliescu¹,

Popa²,

Meena³

et al. 2022

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“…Its pollen grains are activated by vibration in a manner that depended on the degree of hydration of the pollen grains in an anther (Corbet et al, 1988;Lengoc, 1993 andFerguson, 1994) [12,31,30] . Bumblebees collected seven times more viable pollen and the production was higher when population of the bumblebees increased on the flowers (Ferguson and Pusch, 1991) [16] . Pomeroy and Fisher (2002) [44] reported that bumblebee pollination can increase the fruit quality in kiwi by visiting in large numbers and transfer more amount of pollen to the female flowers and hence the quality of fruits is improved.…”

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A review on role of bumblebee pollination in fruits and vegetables

Nayak¹,

Rana²,

Bairwa³

et al. 2020

J Pharmacogn Phytochem

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Bumblebees are efficient pollinator of various fruit and vegetable crops as compare to honeybees under protected condition as well as open conditions. The cross pollination carried out by bumblebees known as myophilly. Bumblebees have tend to forage faster than honeybees, pollinate more flowers per bee, long tongue prefers flower with long corolla tube. At low temperature and low light intensities, the foraging activities of bumblebees are more efficient and cost-effective alternate to hand/manual pollination even. They are perfect pollinator of flowers of family Solanaceae because sonication is required for pollination. Now a days, the population of bumblebees is decreasing at global level due to indiscriminate use of pesticides, loss of natural habitats, mechanization in agriculture and climate changes. The conservation techniques like modification of landscape such as promoting wild flowers and creation of niches for their hibernation, survival and reproduction etc. which provide favorable conditions to increase the bumblebees abundance, foraging behavior and their efficiency. The scientists should attempts for evaluating the pollination efficiency of bumblebees to boost the production of vegetable and fruit crops.

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Vibratory Collection of Actinidia deliciosa (Kiwifruit) Pollen

King¹

1994

Annals of Botany

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Development of Mechanical Dry-Pollen Application to Kiwifruit

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Romanian Kiwifruit Breeding Program - Preliminary Study of Fifteen Male Hybrids for Selection as Pollinators

Romanian Kiwifruit Breeding Program - Preliminary Study of Fifteen Male Hybrids for Selection as Pollinators

A review on role of bumblebee pollination in fruits and vegetables

Vibratory Collection of Actinidia deliciosa (Kiwifruit) Pollen

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