A5005717388- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
Plant & Food Research
2019-2022
Agriculture and Food
2019
University of Auckland
2019
The widespread use of protective covers in horticulture represents a novel landscape-level change, presenting the challenges for crop pollination. Honeybees (Apis mellifera L) are pollinators many crops, but their behavior can be affected by conditions under covers. To determine how netting affect honeybee foraging dynamics, colony health, and pollination services, we assessed performance 52 nucleus colonies five covered six uncovered kiwifruit orchards. Colony strength was estimated pre-...
Macadamia is partially self-incompatible and cross-pollination considered important to improve yields. However, questions remain regarding the importance of self- vs. cross-pollination, subsequently whether managed pollinators are useful in commercial orchards. Pollinators play a key role but for self-pollination, protandrous florets might also benefit from movement potentially more viable self-pollen among florets, racemes, trees through pollinator movement. There lack information on...
Spores of the bacteria Paenibacillus larvae play a central role in transmission American Foulbrood (AFB), major disease honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. This study investigated whether trained detection dogs could recognise an odour pattern from P. spore samples. Although have previously been used to detect diseased colonies with AFB, this is first time they for detecting Given that spores are metabolically inactive, it was unknown samples would produce enough volatile organic compounds...