What is it about?

Pollination is an essential ecosystem function for food production from many crops, but usually overlooked. We found some key compounds that could be included in breeding programs to ensure pollination.

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Why is it important?

Designing future growing systems with new crops will still require pollination for yield.

Perspectives

The application of chemical ecology to pollination represents a chance to redesign crop production.

Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland

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This page is a summary of: The importance of key floral bioactive compounds to honey bees for the detection and attraction of hybrid vegetable crops and increased seed yield, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, April 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.8967.
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