STUDY OF POLLINATING PERFORMANCE OF NATIVE POLLINATORS ON BER (Ziziphus mauritiana LAMK.)
| dc.contributor.author | SANDEEP SINGH | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-06T15:32:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-06T15:32:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-08-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana, Lamk.) belongs to the Rhamnaceae family and it is an important fruit crop for arid and semi-arid regions. It has delicious flavour and potent nutritional properties; hence it is known as the peasantry's fruit. The ber flowers exhibit synchronous protandrous dichogamy, which means that anther dehiscence occurs before stigma receptivity. The flower biology and heavy pollen offer great potential for cross pollination. Pollination is an intricate relationship between plants and pollinators. Pollination is one of the most essential ecosystem services, which is effectual for fruit productivity. The pollination management, augmentation and conservation of pollinators would increase the fruit productivity manifold. Present investigation envisaged to compare the performance of anthophiles/pollinators. Experiments were conducted at Horticulture farm of Banda University of Agricultural & Technology, Banda. Various observations were recorded viz. diversity of the anthophiles/pollinators, foraging initiation and foraging cessation, Relative abundance, visitation rate, time spent, Pollen deposition on stigma, Fruit weight, Fruit productivity. Total 21 anthophiles were recorded during blooming period of ber, they belong to 19 families and 6 orders recorded on boom of ber. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index of anthophiles H’= 2.360 was obtained on ber. The longest foraging duration in a day recorded with M. domestica. The visitation rates, time spend and relative abundance of pollinators varied from species to species, day to day and time to time. The maximum visitation rate (20.05 flower/ min), maximum time spent (3.15sec./ flower) and maximum relative abundance (4.25 visit/ meter2 / 5 minutes) were recorded with Apis florea. Out of the anthophiles, A. florea, Polistes versicolor, Musca domestica, Lucilia sericata and Sceliphron caementarium were screened as pollinators and out of these pollinators, A. florea was key pollinator of ber in this region on the basis of pollen transfer on stigma. The maximum fruit weight and Fruit productivity of ber was recorded with the open pollination. It advocates that augmentation and conservation of above-mentioned key pollinators can maximize the pollination and thereby, enhance the ber productivity. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | SANDEEP SINGH {2023}, Study of pollinating performance of native pollinators on ber (Ziziphus mauritiana lamk.),M.Sc. (Ag.),BANDA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY, BANDA-210001, UTTAR PRADESH (INDIA) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810202294 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.pages | 88 | |
| dc.publisher | BANDA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY, BANDA-210001, UTTAR PRADESH (INDIA) | |
| dc.sub | Entomology | |
| dc.theme | STUDY OF POLLINATING PERFORMANCE OF NATIVE POLLINATORS ON BER (Ziziphus mauritiana LAMK.) | |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | STUDY OF POLLINATING PERFORMANCE OF NATIVE POLLINATORS ON BER (Ziziphus mauritiana LAMK.) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |