Efficiency of Bumble Bees on the Yield and Quality of Eggplant and Tomato Grown in Unheated Glasshouses

Abak, K.; Sarı, Nebahat; Paksoy, Mustafa; Kaftanoğlu, Osman; Yeninar, Halil

doi:10.17660/actahortic.1995.412.30

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“…At the mobile garden, each focal plant also benefitted from a different suite of pollinators. Previous work supports our findings that bumble bees enhance eggplant seed set (Abak et al 1995), as they effectively buzz pollinate flowers. We also observed a positive correlation between sweat bee visits to the mobile garden and eggplant seed set.…”

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Diversity of wild bees supports pollination services in an urbanized landscape

2015

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Plantings in residential neighborhoods can support wild pollinators. However, it is unknown how effectively wild pollinators maintain pollination services in small, urban gardens with diverse floral resources. We used a 'mobile garden' experimental design, whereby potted plants of cucumber, eggplant, and purple coneflower were brought to 30 residential yards in Chicago, IL, USA, to enable direct assessment of pollination services provided by wild pollinator communities. We measured fruit and seed set and investigated the effect of within-yard characteristics and adjacent floral resources on plant pollination. Increased pollinator visitation and taxonomic richness generally led to increases in fruit and seed set for all focal plants. Furthermore, fruit and seed set were correlated across the three species, suggesting that pollination services vary across the landscape in ways that are consistent among different plant species. Plant species varied in terms of which pollinator groups provided the most visits and benefit for pollination. Cucumber pollination was linked to visitation by small sweat bees (Lasioglossum spp.), whereas eggplant pollination was linked to visits by bumble bees. Purple coneflower was visited by the most diverse group of pollinators and, perhaps due to this phenomenon, was more effectively pollinated in florally-rich gardens. Our results demonstrate how a diversity of wild bees supports pollination of multiple plant species, highlighting the importance of pollinator conservation within cities. Non-crop resources should continue to be planted in urban gardens, as these resources have a neutral and potentially positive effect on crop pollination.

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“…Whereas bagged tomato flowers still set fruits in glasshouses (cf. Abak et al 1995;Dogterom et al 1998), we obtained no fruits at all in lulo under these conditions. Hence, lulo depends on pollination by insects or by hand when cultivated in glasshouse in Central Europe.…”

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“…Our experiment was performed in a glasshouse with low level of wind and air currents (cf. Abak et al 1995), and this might plausibly explain why no fruits were set in bagged flowers. A similar situation exists in tomatoes and eggplants, which are also self-fertile and not exclusively dependent on insects for pollen transfer and high fruit set in the open field, but clearly benefit from pollinators when grown in the glasshouse (Abak et al 1995).…”

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“…The Eurasian Bombus terrestris L. (buff-tailed bumblebee) is widely used in agriculture (Velthuis and van Doorn 2006). As an effective buzz pollinator, it increases yield in many cultivated solanaceous plants, for example sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum: Serrano and Guerra-Sanz 2006), eggplant (Solanum melongena: Abak et al 1995) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum: Velthuis and van Doorn 2006). Given that lulo flower architecture is similar to that of tomato and that, in its native Neotropical range, it is pollinated by B. atratus (Almanza Fandiño 2007), it can be assumed that B. terrestris could also be used for lulo pollination.…”

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Successful pollination of the Neotropical crop Solanum quitoense by Bombus terrestris: behaviour, efficiency and yield

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J Applied Entomology

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The South American lulo (Solanum quitoense Lam.) is a crop plant of the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, pollinated by South American bumblebees, such as, Bombus atratus Franklin. The cultivation of lulo outside of its native range, for example in European glasshouses, requires the presence of efficient pollinators to enable high fruit set and yield. Until now, the suitability of Bombus terrestris L., native to Europe and commonly used in agriculture, has been untested for this purpose. In this study, the pollencollecting behaviour of B. terrestris when visiting lulo flowers was investigated. It was shown that B. terrestris adopted the lulo as a pollen source, and on average visited three flowers per minute, had five buzzing events per stay and foraged for 15 s on a single flower, independently of the previous number of visits and level of bruising to the anthers. The pollination efficiency of five different treatments was evaluated: (i) exclusion of bees, (ii) single and (iii) multiple visits of B. terrestris, (iv) self-and (v) cross-pollination by hand. The results clearly demonstrated that, for fruit set, pollination is crucial. It was also found that lulo flowers can be successfully self-pollinated, but give 25% fewer fruit set compared with pollination via multiple bumblebee visits, or cross-pollination by hand. Fruit set, seed set and fruit size were as high with pollination by B. terrestris as with crosspollination by hand, indicating that this bumblebee is an appropriate pollinator for lulo. However, B. terrestris was conspicuously less effective when a flower was visited only once. Therefore, when growing lulos commercially, multiple bumblebee visits should be encouraged, but it is likely that the behaviour of B. terrestris would ensure this anyway. Our results indicate that B. terrestris is a suitable and efficient pollinator for the production of lulo fruits.

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“…Apenas o subgênero Psithyrus é parasita de outras Bombina sociais (Kawakita et al, 2004). Apenas 35 das 250 espécies descritas ocorrem na região Neotropical, sendo que algumas espécies têm sido utilizadas na polinização de culturas, especialmente o tomate e outras solanáceas (Abak et al, 1995;Estay et al, 2001).…”

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Análise filogenética das abelhas corbiculadas (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae): uma análise de evidência total

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Aos vários amigos e colegas encontrados ao longo do curso de Pós-graduação em Entomologia.Aos amigos Alessandra Santana, Juliana Ferez e Renato Capellari pela grande ajuda com os ajustes do idioma e comentários. E muito especialmente ao meu esposo Paulo Skora pela paciência e compreensão durante todo o processo de doutoramento. Finalmente, a hipótese filogenética proposta nesse trabalho para o grupo das abelhas corbiculadas apoia a monofilia da tribo Apini, assim como das subtribos Euglossina, Apina, Bombina e Meliponina. A hipótese (Euglossina + (Bombina + (Apina + Meliponina))) é revalidada. Em consequência, a origem única da eussocialidade dentro de Apini é sustentada. This work evaluated the relationship between corbiculate Apidae using the total evidence available: traditional morphometric data, geometric morphometric data, morphological data, behavioral data and molecular data. These characters historically were incongruent. Methodological problems of each source of character were investigated and corrected in the phylogenetic analysis of the total evidence. The methodological problems were searched for each source of characters. All data are analyzed with parsimony methods. RESUMOTwenty-four species of Apini and four outgroup species were analyzed. Phylogenetic analysis of eleven traditional body measurements suggested significant interference with body size of the species in the results, to correct this size effect morphometric data can be used as reliable phylogenetic characters. The character obtained from geometric morphometric was highly convergent in the phylogenetic analysis, despite the apparent phylogenetic constraint observed on relationship between the wing shape and body size of the species. Analyses of molecular data suggested the interference of the choice of outgroup in the results, different phylogenetic hypotheses emerged when include two species more distant of Apini in the outgroup. With the most distant outgroup, the support of the clades showed constant and higher for most comprehensive clades. However, the molecular data remained incongruent with traditional morphological and behavioral, morphometric characters analyzed. In contrast, morphological and behavioral data were not affected by the choice of outgroup, Euglossina remained as a paraphyletic group according to these characters. Finally, the phylogenetic hypothesis proposed for the corbiculate Apidae supports the monophyly of the tribe Apini, Euglossina Apina, Bombina and Meliponina. The hypothesis (Euglossina + (Bombina + (Apina + Meliponina))) is revalidated. Consequently, a single origin of eussocialidade within Apini is sustained.Keywords: continuous characters, total evidence, phylogenetic analysis, Apini, Apina, Meliponina, Euglossina Bombina, corbiculate Apidae. LISTA DE TABELAS Tabela 1: Classificação da Família Apidae segundo Silveira et al. (2002) ---------------------17Tabela 2: Hipóteses filogenéticas propostas para as subtribos de Apini. -----------------------21Tabela 3: Espécies selecionadas para a análise das r...

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Efficiency of Bumble Bees on the Yield and Quality of Eggplant and Tomato Grown in Unheated Glasshouses

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Diversity of wild bees supports pollination services in an urbanized landscape

Diversity of wild bees supports pollination services in an urbanized landscape

Successful pollination of the Neotropical crop Solanum quitoense by Bombus terrestris: behaviour, efficiency and yield

Análise filogenética das abelhas corbiculadas (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae): uma análise de evidência total

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