Claim · model-written summary
Pollination rate decreased with distance from hives.
- Taxon
- Avocado
Persea americanat0 - Outcome
- pollination ratese0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Setting
- distance from the hivese0
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Verbatim
e0“pollination rates and the number of germinating pollen grains per stigma decreased with distance from the hives”
t0“Avocado”
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 Germinating pollen grains per stigma decreased with distance from hives.
- Association Pollination decline correlated with the negative yield gradient.
- Recommendation The authors conclude adding BB hives increases avocado pollination and yield.