Claim · model-written summary
During the hottest summer period, tomato fruit set with the stingless bee was lower than with the bumblebee.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Interactor
- stingless bee
Scaptotrigona posticae0pollinator - Outcome
- rate of fruit sete0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- bumblebeee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the rates of foraged flowers, the rate of fruit set and the yields were significantly reduced in the stingless bee compared with the bumblebee when fertile tomato pollen decreased markedly during the hottest period of the summer”
Title
Mitsuharu Hikawa; Ryoichi Miyanaga Applied Entomology and Zoology 2009. doi:10.1303/aez.2009.301
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation With sufficient tomato pollen, pollination efficiency did not differ between Melipona quadrifasciata and Bombus terrestris.
- Observation During the hottest summer period, Melipona quadrifasciata foraged fewer flowers than Bombus terrestris.
- Observation During the hottest summer period, tomato yields with the stingless bee were lower than with the bumblebee.
- Observation Bumblebee flower foraging did not decrease during the hottest period.
- Observation During the hottest period, tomato fruit set, seed number, and yield under bumblebee pollination decreased relative to other periods.
- Mechanism The authors infer that greenhouse heat above 28C caused the extreme decrease in tomato pollen production.
- Recommendation Melipona quadrifasciata is considered a suitable tomato pollinator when sufficient fertile pollen is available.