Data/hora: 12/06/2024 14:37:41

Provedor de dados: | 45
País: | Brazil
Título: | Differential performance of honey bee colonies selected for bee-pollen production through instrumental insemination and free-mating technique
Autores: | Mattos,I.M. de; Souza,J.; Soares,A.E.E.
Data: | 2016-10-01
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Apis mellifera; Bee-pollen; Instrumental insemination; Pollen production; Africanized honey bees.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT The use of bee-pollen as a nutritional supplement or as a production-enhancing agent in livestock has increased the demand for this product worldwide. Despite the current importance of this niche within the apiculture industry, few studies have addressed the pollen production. We tested the performance of free-mated (FM) and instrumentally inseminated queens (IQ) in order to establish the effect of different breeding systems on pollen production. The F1 generation of IQ queens produced 153.95±42.83g/day, showing a significant improvement on the pollen production (2.74 times) when compared to the parental generation (51.83±7.84g/day). The F1 generation of free-mated queens produced 100.07±8.23 g/day, which increased by 1.78 times when compared to the parental generation. Furthermore, we observed a statistically significant difference between the pollen production between colonies from the IQ and FM treatments. This study suggests that inseminated queens should be considered by beekeepers that aim to increase pollen production.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352016000501369
Editor: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de Veterinária
Relação: | 10.1590/1678-4162-8875
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia  v.68 n.5 2016
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess