Higher soybean production using honeybee and wild pollinators, a sustainable alternative to pesticides and autopollination

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 335-341

  de O Milfont, Marcelo ^a   Rocha, Epifania Emanuela M ^a   Lima, Afonso Odério N ^a   Freitas, Breno M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Biotic pollination; Crop pollination; Crop productivity; Glycine max; Native pollinators; Pesticides; Pollination deficit; Supplementary pollination; Yield increment

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PESTICIDES;

APIS MELLIFERA; BIOTIC POLLINATION; BIOTICS; CROP POLLINATION; CROP PRODUCTIVITY; GLYCINE MAX; NATIVE POLLINATOR; POLLINATION DEFICIT; SUPPLEMENTARY POLLINATION; YIELD INCREMENT;

CROPS;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; GLYCINE MAX; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84888131463     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-013-0412-8     Document Type: Article

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