Significant yield benefits from honeybee pollination of faba bean (Vicia faba) assessed at field scale

Field Crops Research

Volumn 149, Issue , 2013, Pages 269-275

  Cunningham, Saul A ^a   Le Feuvre, Danny ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Australian Bee Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Crop pollination; Economic analysis; Fruit set; Spatial variation; Vicia faba

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FIELD SURVEY; FRUIT SET; HONEYBEE; LEGUME; POLLINATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84879510684     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2013.05.019     Document Type: Article

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