Bee researcher at Arizona State University is 1 of 20 new Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences
...eir banded coloration, social life and skills with pollination could some day be the key to advancements in biomedical neuroscience of aging if Gro Amdam has her way, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Amdam, an assistant professor in Arizona State Universitys School of Life Sciences who heads socia...Detecting poisons in nectar is an odour-ous task for honeybees
...ific mystery. The honeybee, which accounts for the pollination of at least 1/3 of the worlds crop plants, may encounter such poisoned nectar in common crop and garden plants such as Rhododendrons and almond trees. Can honeybees learn whether nectar contains toxins, and does this influence their ability as pollin...Neighbors gone, fruits gone, species gone
... long tradition of studying direct interactions in pollination biology," says Dennis Hansen, "but only little focus on indirect interactions, even though they often have large effects. Our study illustrates how important it is to know as much as possible about the community-level interactions of an endangered sp...Nectar is not a simple soft drink
... risk poisoning the insects and birds that provide pollination services? Their findings have been published in The Plant Journal. Kessler and Baldwin examined the nectar of a wild tobacco species, Nicotiana attenuata, and discovered that it is flavoured with 35 secondary compounds. The researchers then tested ...The floral network -- what determines who pollinates whom
...attern of specialists and generalists seen in real pollination networks. The superiority of the combination mo...y inefficient pollinators, may also interfere with pollination by efficient ones. Nonetheless, the results of the present study indicate that barriers are likely t...Honey bee researcher wins National Research Initiative Discovery Award
...ncludes fruit, fiber, nut and vegetable crops. Bee pollination adds about $14 billion dollars annually to improved crop yield and quality, according to information on the Web site....Intensified research effort yields climate-resilient agriculture to blunt impact of global warming
...s, photosynthesis slows or even ceases altogether, pollination is prevented, and dehydration sets in. With increased rainfall and flooding forecast in many parts of Asia, new breeds of rice benefiting from a trait that allows the plant to survive prolonged periods of submergence are already helping farmers o...New cost-benefit model will aid efforts to conserve wilderness: UBC researcher
...efiting humans ranging from flood control to crop pollination can foster more win-win solutions between wildern...ain like the Salinas Valley provides valuable crop pollination and flood control. They cross-referenced these service networks with biodiversity priorities and ...Bee genome information housed at Texas A&M University
...castes for colony maintenance, influence honey bee pollination behavior so important to crop production, and even...llion per year in agricultural value through their pollination of fruit, nut and vegetable crops, Weaver said. "It's also estimated that one out of three bites o...Research discovers oldest bee, evolutionary link
...perms," largely conifer trees, which used wind for pollination and re-seeding. These changes took place during the Cretaceous Period, which lasted from 65.5 million to 145.5 million years ago. The earliest angiosperms didn't really begin to spread rapidly until a little over 100 millions years ago, a time that ...There's much more to bees than honey
...Germany, France and the United States studied crop pollination by the European honey bee and their paper, 'Import...ings of the Royal Society. "While we knew that bee pollination was vital in global crop production, we had no idea of the extent of this reliance," Dr Cunningham s...Pollinators help one-third of the world's food crop production
...pendent. The crops that did not rely upon animal pollination were mainly staple crops such as wheat, corn and r...ive bees in North America alone. "We've replaced pollination services formerly provided by diverse groups of wild bees with domesticated honey bees," said Kremen...Sweet yet sophisticated: Honey bee genome lends insight into sociality, sensation and sex
... evolved mechanisms to attract and reward bees for pollination services, so there was little need for the bees to develop additional taste receptors." Contact: Hugh M. Robertson, Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign hughrobe@uiuc.edu +1-217-333-0489 Reference: Robertson, H.M. and Wanner, K.W. 2...Origins, spread of honeybees determined
...t they are also difficult to rear commercially for pollination and the production of honey and other products. The information gained from this study can be used to compare markers between Africanized and non-Africanized bees, which would allow for the identification of genes that lend these "killer" bees their ...Professor analyzes nuclear receptors in bee genome
...tance to agriculture and medicine. The well-known pollination activities of honey bees add billions of dollars of value to U.S. crops every year, but bees are also used in the laboratory to study issues related to human health such as immunity, longevity and diseases of the X chromosome. In addition, brain sci...National Academies advisory: Pollinators in North America
... colonies of which are leased by farmers to ensure pollination -- had to be imported from outside North America for the first time in decades because of a shortage in the U.S. The report will be released in conjunction with a North American Pollinator Protection Campaign meeting being held at the U.S. Depart...Wild bees make honeybees better pollinators
Up to a third of our food supply depends on pollination by domesticated honeybees, but the insects are up to five times more efficient when wild bees buzz the same fields, according to a study published Aug. 28 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. "As honeybees becom...Landscape corridors promote plant diversity
...The researchers will study the specific effects of pollination and seed dispersal by wind and animals on plants in both connected and unconnected patches of habitat, for example....... per cent of the world's food production is due to pollination by wild bees, which include the bumblebee. Steph O'Connor, who has just graduated from Newcastle University with a Wildlife Biology degree, is working on the project with insect specialists Dr Mark O'Neill and Dr Gordon Port, who is also a senior...