Abstract
Abstract Oil peony ( Paeonia spp.) is a new type of woody oil crop in China with a large cultivation area. Inadequate pollination is one of the main reasons for low seed yield. A pollination net room was built at an oil tree peony base, the numbers of honeybees ( Apis mellifera L.) and ground bumblebees ( Bombus terrestris L.) were artificially increased and the foraging behaviors and daily activities of the two bees on the plants were observed. Four different pollination methods (honeybee pollination, ground bumblebee pollination, natural field pollination and pollination without insects) were applied. The visit interval, single-flower visit time, number of single-flower visits, number of flowers visited per minute and number of stigma contacts were compared. Meanwhile, the effects of honeybee and bumblebee pollination on the oil yield and quality of peony seeds were compared. There were noticeable differences in daily activity between honeybees and ground bumblebees. Significant differences in the single-flower visit time, visit interval and visit frequency were also observed; honeybee and ground bumblebee pollination increased the seed yield of oil tree peony by 78.74% and 31.88%, respectively. Therefore, both honeybees and ground bumblebees are effective pollinators of oil tree peony. These results provide a theoretical basis for further utilization of bee resources for oil tree peony pollination.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record; open copy licensed cc-by. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Honeybees and ground bumblebees differed in daily activity on oil tree peony.
- Taxon
- Oil Tree Peonyt0
- Interactor
- honeybees
_Apis_mellifera_(female)_-_on_viburnum_tinus_flowers.jpg?width=60)
Apis melliferae0pollinator - Second interactor
- ground bumblebeese0pollinator
- Outcome
- daily activitye0
- Comparator
- ground bumblebeese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
_Apis_mellifera_(female)_-_on_viburnum_tinus_flowers.jpg?width=500)
Verbatim
e0“There were noticeable differences in daily activity between honeybees and ground bumblebees.”
t0“Oil Tree Peony”
Claim · model-written summary
Honeybees and ground bumblebees differed significantly in single-flower visit time, visit interval and visit frequency.
- Taxon
- Oil Tree Peonyt0
- Interactor
- honeybeesApis melliferae1pollinator
- Second interactor
- ground bumblebeese1pollinator
- Outcome
- single-flower visit time, visit interval and visit frequencye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Significant differences in the single-flower visit time, visit interval and visit frequency were also observed”
e1“between honeybees and ground bumblebees.”
t0“Oil Tree Peony”
Claim · model-written summary
Honeybee pollination increased oil tree peony seed yield by 78.74%.
- Taxon
- oil tree peonye0
- Treatment
- honeybeee0
- Interactor
- honeybeeApis melliferae0pollinator
- Outcome
- seed yield of oil tree peonye0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 78.74%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“honeybee and ground bumblebee pollination increased the seed yield of oil tree peony by 78.74% and 31.88%, respectively.”
Claim · model-written summary
Ground bumblebee pollination increased oil tree peony seed yield by 31.88%.
- Taxon
- oil tree peonye0
- Treatment
- ground bumblebee pollinatione0
- Interactor
- ground bumblebeee0pollinator
- Outcome
- seed yield of oil tree peonye0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 31.88%e0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“honeybee and ground bumblebee pollination increased the seed yield of oil tree peony by 78.74% and 31.88%, respectively.”