ArticleScientific reports2020
Yield benefits of additional pollination to faba bean vary with cultivar, scale, yield parameter and experimental method.
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- Land-use impacts on crop yield: direct and indirect roles of arthropods and associated ecosystem services in European farmland.Landscape ecology · 2025Article
- Animal pollination contributes to more than half of citrus production.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Analysis of Genetic Diversity in Adzuki Beans (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Bumblebee responses to variation in pollinator-attracting traits ofEcology and evolution · 2023Article
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- The importance of multi-year studies and commercial yield metrics in measuring pollinator dependence ratios: A case study in UK raspberriesEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- Rapid assessment of insect pollination services to inform decision-making.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2022Article
- Study and QTL mapping of reproductive and morphological traits implicated in the autofertility of faba bean.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
- Insect pest damage increases faba bean (Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect-pollinated crop.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
The benefits of insect pollination to crop yield are used to justify management decisions across agricultural landscapes but current methods for assessing these benefits may underestimate the importance of context. We quantify how the effects of simulated insect pollination vary between five faba bean cultivars, and to what extent this changes between years, scales, yield parameters, and experimental methods. We do this by measuring responses to standardised hand pollination treatments in controlled experiments in flight cages and in the field. Pollination treatments generally improved yield, but in some cases yield was lower with additional pollination. Pollination dependence varied with cultivar, ranging from 58% (loss in yield mass per plant without pollination) in one cultivar, to a lower yield with pollination in another (-51%). Pollination dependence also varied between flight cage and field experiments (-10 to 37% in the same cultivar and year), year (4 to 33%; same cultivar and yield parameter), and yield parameter (-4 to 46%; same cultivar and year). This variability highlights that to be robust, assessments of pollination benefits need to focus upon marketable crop outputs at a whole-plant or larger scale while including and accounting for the effects of different years, sites, methodologies and cultivars.
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