Claim · model-written summary
M. quadrifasciata pollinated greenhouse tomatoes more efficiently than honey bees.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- M. quadrifasciatae0
- Interactor
- M. quadrifasciata
Melipona quadrifasciatae0pollinator - Outcome
- pollinating greenhouse tomatoese0
- Direction
- more efficiente0
- Comparator
- honey beese0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.


Verbatim
e0“The stingless bee, M. quadrifasciata, was significantly more efficient than honey bees in pollinating greenhouse tomatoes.”
Title
S.A. Bispo dos Santos; A.C. Roselino; M. Hrncir; et al. Genetics and Molecular Research 2009. doi:10.4238/vol8-2kerr015
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Open tomato flowers hosted 253 Chrysomelidae.
- Observation Open tomato flowers hosted 17 Halictidae.
- Observation Open tomato flowers hosted one Paratrigona sp.
- Observation Open tomato flowers hosted one honey bee.
- Intervention effect The stingless bee greenhouse produced the most tomatoes, 1414.
- Intervention effect The stingless bee greenhouse had the heaviest and largest tomatoes.
- Intervention effect The stingless bee greenhouse produced tomatoes with the most seeds.
- Intervention effect Honey bee greenhouse fruits matched one control greenhouse in weight and size.