Flower Volatiles, Crop Varieties and Bee Responses

Pollination contributes to an estimated one third of global food production, through both the improvement of the yield and the quality of crops. Volatile compounds emitted by crop flowers mediate plant-pollinator interactions, but differences between crop varieties are still little explored. We inve...

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Main Authors: Klatt, Björn K., Burmeister, Carina, Westphal, Catrin, Tscharntke, Teja, von Fragstein, Maximillian
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748066/