Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude adding BB hives increases avocado pollination and yield.
- Taxon
- avocado
Persea americanae0
- Interactor
- BBe0pollinator
- Outcome
- adding BB hivese0
- Value
- ca. 10 hives/hae0
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Verbatim
e0“adding BB hives to 'Hass' avocado orchards, at ca. 10 hives/ha resulting in 0.5-1.0 BB visits/tree per min, increases pollination and, accordingly, total yield”
Title
Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Improve ‘Hass’ Avocado (Persea americana) Pollination
Raphael A. Stern; Ada Rozen; Ravit Eshed; et al. Plants 2021. doi:10.3390/plants10071372
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect In 2017/18 Hass yield was higher near bumblebee hives than in distant rows.
- Intervention effect In 2018/19 yield was significantly higher near bumblebee hives.
- Observation The 2019/20 experiments obtained similar yield results.
- Observation SNP analysis found no difference in Hass × Ettinger cross-pollination rate by hive distance.
- Association Pollination rate decreased with distance from hives.
- Association Germinating pollen grains per stigma decreased with distance from hives.
- Association Pollination decline correlated with the negative yield gradient.