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Effect of honeybees pollination on seed setting, yield and quality characteristics of rapeseed (Brassica napus oleifera)

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Title Effect of honeybees pollination on seed setting, yield and quality characteristics of rapeseed (Brassica napus oleifera)
 
Creator Oz, M
Karasu, A
Cakmak, I
Goksoy, A T
Ozmen, N
 
Subject Apis mellifera anatoliaca; Bee pollination; Canola
 
Description The study was conducted during 2004-06 to determine the effects of pollination using honeybees on seed yield and quality characteristics of the rapeseed 'Pulsar' winter variety of canola (Brassica napus ssp. oleifera) was grown and small colonies of honeybee (Apis mellifera anatoliaca) were placed in mini hives with or without pollen trap. The present study contained 4 pollination treatments, viz. T1, an open field; T2, a cage without bees, T3, a cage with bees in a regular mini hive and T4 a cage with bees mini hive with pollen trap. Seed yield was 3 205, 1 823, 2 360 and 2 357 kg/ha for the treatments T1, T2. T3 and T4 respectively. The differences in pods/plant, seeds/pod and seed yield/plant were found significant (p<0.05) and highest values were obtained from open field, followed by a cage with bees in a regular mini hives and a cage with bees in a bottom pollen trap hive. Seed weight, branches/plant, harvest index, seed protein and oil content were insignificantly influenced by treatments. Honeybee pollination increased the seed yield significantly but not protein and oil percentage in seeds.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
Date 2008-08-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/9847
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 78, No 8 (2008)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/9847/4414
 
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