Claim · model-written summary
Open-pollinated sesame had greater seed weight, at 3.44 gm/1000 seeds.
- Taxon
- sesame
Sesamum indicumt0 - Treatment
- open-pollinatede1
- Outcome
- seed weighte1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Value
- 3.44 gm/1000 seedse1
- Comparator
- self-pollinatede2
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Verbatim
e1“The maximum number of pods with greater seed weight and yield was obtained in open-pollinated (41.53 pods/m2, 3.44 gm/1000 seeds, and 91.97 gm/m2 respectively)”
e2“followed by A. mellifera and self-pollinated”
t0“yield enhancement in sesame”
Title
Pollinator profile and their influence on the yield enhancement in sesame
Ghulam Sarwar; Waseem Akram; Sumera Aslam; et al. Plant Bulletin 2024. doi:10.55627/pbulletin.003.01.0512
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation Hymenopterans were the predominant sesame floral visitors, at 90.81% of all floral visitors.
- Observation Bees were the most frequent floral visitors of sesame.
- Observation Bombus haemorrhoidalis was the most abundant floral visitor of sesame, at 27.16%.
- Observation A. dorsata was the second most abundant floral visitor of sesame, at 25.04%.
- Observation A. mellifera was a floral visitor of sesame at 16.27%, following A. dorsata.
- Observation A. florea was a floral visitor of sesame at 9.34%, the least frequent of the four listed bees.
- Observation All bee species started their sesame floral activity before 09:00 am.
- Observation Bombus haemorrhoidalis, A. dorsata and A. cerana attained peak activity on sesame at 09:00 am.
- Observation A. mellifera attained peak activity on sesame at 09:00 am.
- Observation A. florea attained peak activity on sesame at 03:00 pm.
- Observation Xylocopa fenestrata attained peak activity on sesame at 12:00 pm.
- Intervention effect Open-pollinated sesame had the maximum number of pods, at 41.53 pods/m2.
- Intervention effect Open-pollinated sesame had greater yield, at 91.97 gm/m2.
- Intervention effect Pollination by A. mellifera ranked below open-pollination and above self-pollination for pod number, seed weight and yield.
- Association Honeybees, especially A. mellifera, play an important role in increasing sesame yield.