Sentences with phrase «pollination using»

Pollination using managed honeybees is a critical element in modern agriculture; more than 130 crops in the US require pollination, with an annual crop value of $ 15 billion.

Not exact matches

Some well - intentioned vegans overlook the use of honey because of the widely spread myth that honey and bee products are all - natural by - products of the necessary pollination of our food crops.

Red Hat growers use natural predators — or «good bugs» — to combat pests, and bumblebees are used in all tomato greenhouses for natural pollination.

Some alterations: I used yellow split pea instead, minced garlic from a jar instead of cloves, added slices of yellow cucumbers (cross pollination with lemon cucumbers from my garden), and I marinated the ham hocks with apple cider vinegar before placement into the slow cooker.

I was wondering what method of pollination these peppers use to produce fruit, i.e. wind, insect, manual pollination.

Gary Rulison of the Rulison Honey Farms smokes bees to be used for pollination of the Indian Ladder apple orchard in Altamont, N.Y. April 18, 2012.

The result: «The pollination of chilli plants is considerably better on the plots of land that are farmed in the traditional way, even when slash - and - burn practices are used,» says biologist Robert Paxton.

The study, published in PLOS ONE, shows how farmers could use the technology to monitor pollination and increase food production.

«Farmers may be able to use the exact methods to monitor pollination of their orchards and vegetable crops and head off pollination deficits.

On a practical level, scientists would like to be able to use lab - propagation techniques on crop plants such as maize that still require normal pollination.

Paradoxically, as more land around the globe is put to agricultural use for pollination - dependent crops, indigenous bee species get crowded out.

The researchers showed that floral scent is crucial for successful pollination: Manduca sexta hawk moths, the most important pollinators of the wild tobacco species Nicotiana attenuata, use their proboscis to smell the floral volatiles when they visit flowers.

The researchers conducted a pilot study using their comprehensive approach to assess the pollination performance of various bee species on economically important highbush blueberry crops in North Carolina.

Though it's rare for plants to use sound as an attraction tactic, there are other species that employ this technique, like some bat - pollinated plants in the Neotropics; this, however, is the first example of a plant that doesn't use the strategy for pollination.

Dr Whitehorn, working with Associate Professor Mario Vallejo - Marin, looked at a complex type of pollination, called buzz pollination, in which bees use vibrations to remove pollen from flowers.

There are 42 slides covering animal and plant cells, how to use a microscope, specialised cells, cell division of animal cells, pollination and fertilisation of plant cells.

Free - market conservatives detest the idea of a unitary, intelligentsia - blessed system of standards displacing a dynamic, differentiated system that makes use of constantly evolving, widely dispersed wisdom and allows for cross pollination and the continuous organic elevation of superior ideas.

- Explain why how Gregor Mendel contributed to the discovery of modern day genetics - Compare the differences between self - pollination vs. cross pollination, genotype vs. phenotype, and dominant vs. recessive - Describe how to use a Punnett square to figure out the probability of specific traits in the offspring of two parent crosses.

(Grades K - 4) Building and Using a Hydroponic / Aquaculture System in the Classroom (Grades 9 - 12) Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination (Grades 4 - 9) Hands - On Plant Activities (K - 4)

At Catlin Gabel School, a major curricular focus across grades Pre-K through 12 is on the different strands of gardening, pollination, climate change, energy use, economics, bodily health, and social justice as they intersect at the central point of food.

Currently she is working on projects to increase pollinator friendly habitat in Maryland, to study urban pollution using honey bees as environmental samplers, and to investigate the biophysical properties of plants during the pollination event.

While they are important, other research has suggested using wild bees — those that are solitary cavity - or soil - nesting insects — as opposed to large colonies of honey bees, can result in successful pollination as well.

What's the alternative to using bees for pollination?

The second place prize went to YT AG, a system for monitoring the health of bee hives used by the commercial pollination industry that ambitiously includes hardware, software and a premium AI component.