Tomato pollination with Japanese native bumblebees (Bombus spp.)

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 437, Issue , 1997, Pages 289-292

  Asada, S ^a   Ono, M ^b  

^a Kanawawa Prefectural Research Institute   (Japan)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBUS HYPOCRITA HYPOCRITA; BOMBUS IGNITUS; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0001737614     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1997.437.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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