Abstract: Flowering plants require pollen to be transported and deposited on a stigma for fertilization to occur. This process of pollination is critical for plant reproduction and the production of crops. Agents that pollinate flowers include wind, insects, birds, and bats. To study pollination it is important to understand how the biology of the flower and its requirement for self- or cross-pollination interacts with the behavior of the pollinators that visit it. By matching the best pollinator to the flower, crop yields can be improved, although this can be limited by the availability of methods to manage pollinator species. Honeybees are the most important crop pollinator globally because of well-established methods of management and the ability to move large numbers of honeybees rapidly into a flowering crop.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-10-27
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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