%0 Journal Article
%T Pollination of soybean (Glycine max L. Merril) by honeybees (Apis mellifera L.)
%A Chiari
%A Wainer C¨¦sar
%A Toledo
%A Vagner de Alencar Arnaut de
%A Ruvolo-Takasusuki
%A Maria Claudia Colla
%A Oliveira
%A Arildo Jos¨¦ Braz de
%A Sakaguti
%A Eduardo Shiguero
%A Attencia
%A Valeria Maria
%A Costa
%A Fabiana Martins
%A Mitsui
%A Marina Hitomi
%J Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
%D 2005
%I Tecpar
%R 10.1590/S1516-89132005000100005
%X this experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of the honeybee pollination in the production and quality of soybean seeds (glycine max l. merril). seed production was higher (p=0.0001) in covered areas with honeybee colonies (50.64%) and uncovered areas (57.73%) than in covered areas without honeybee colonies. it could be concluded that honeybees were responsible for 95.5% of the pollination accomplished by insects. the pod number in covered treatment with honeybees was 61.38% higher (p=0.0002) than in the covered treatment without honeybees. the average weight of 100 seeds was larger (p=0.0001) in the area covered without honeybees, and reached 17.8 g. the medium content of crude protein in grains was 36.7% and the average oil content was 20.2%. the germination test did not show differences (p>0.05) among the seeds in different treatments. it was concluded that the honeybee pollination in the soybean increased the seeds production.
%K apis mellifera
%K soybean
%K glycine max
%K honeybees
%K pollination
%K seed production.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-89132005000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en