Application of the Bumblebee Foraging Pheromone for Commercial Greenhouse Pollination

熊蜂觅食信息素在商业温室授粉中的应用

• 批准号: NE/F523342/1
• 负责人: Lars Chittka
• 金额: $ 12.51万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FF523342%2F1
• 关键词: Application; Bumblebee; Foraging; Pheromone; Commercial

Almost 1 million bumblebee colonies are bought each year to pollinate greenhouse crops. However poor bee motivation often leads to reduced pollination success. Building on our results showing that artificial chemicals can be used to increase Bombus terrestris foraging activity in the laboratory, we will elucidate the optimum chemical blend and test its efficacy at increasing pollination levels and crop yield of a commercially important crop (tomatoes) in greenhouse conditions. Having established our artificial foraging recruitment pheromone effectively mimics the natural bumblebee system to communicate the presence of food outside the nest, we will develop a cost-effective automatic system to dispense pheromone into bumblebee nests at timed intervals. To increase global applicability of this innovative technology to maximise crop yields, we will determine the components of the recruitment pheromone of Bombus impatiens, the species used exclusively for greenhouse pollination in the USA.

每年有近100万个大黄蜂蜂群被购买来为温室作物授粉。然而，不良的蜜蜂动机往往导致授粉成功率降低。我们的研究结果表明，人工化学品可用于增加熊蜂在实验室中的觅食活动的基础上，我们将阐明最佳的化学混合物，并测试其在温室条件下增加授粉水平和作物产量的重要商业作物（番茄）的功效。在建立了我们的人工觅食招聘信息素有效地模仿自然熊蜂系统沟通的食物存在的巢外，我们将开发一个具有成本效益的自动系统，以定时间隔分配信息素到熊蜂巢。为了提高这一创新技术的全球适用性，以最大限度地提高作物产量，我们将确定熊蜂凤仙花的招聘信息素的组成部分，该物种专门用于温室授粉在美国。

项目成果

How floral odours are learned inside the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) nest

• DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0465-x
• 发表时间: 2009-02-01
• 期刊: NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN
• 作者: Molet, Mathieu;Chittka, Lars;Raine, Nigel E.
• 通讯作者: Raine, Nigel E.

Colony nutritional status modulates worker responses to foraging recruitment pheromone in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

• DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0623-3
• 发表时间: 2008-10-01
• 期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Molet, Mathieu;Chittka, Lars;Raine, Nigel E.
• 通讯作者: Raine, Nigel E.