The effect of apple flower pollination by honeybees on the increase of fruit-set
published by Damascus University
in 2003
in Plant Protecion
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
This study was conducted in the spring of 1999 in Al-Souida Region of
Syria, to know the effect of flower pollination by honeybees on flower and fruitset
and on the crop productivity of three varieties of apple. The experiment was
repeated in the spring of 2001 on the same varieties in addition to others like
Yellow sport, but the weather conditions (spring-frost) didn’t allow to obtain
results.
References used
Boreneen, N. L. and G. N. Kotofa. 1988. Plant pollination by bees. 252-254, in : The Reference in Apidology. Moscow, 365 p
Delaplane, K. S. and D. E. Mayer. 1999. “Apple” in Crop pollination by bees. CABI. Pub. New Yourk, 143-153
Dozet, B. M., S. Mandel, D. Skoric and B. Farkas. 1993. Use of honey bees for controlled inter-pollination of wild Helianthus annus L. and Helianthus petiolaris sp. Nuttall(Yugoslavia) 16(19): 69-76