ISHS Acta Horticulturae 288: VI International Symposium on Pollination
MILESTONES IN APPLIED POLLINATION RESEARCH, AN OVERVIEW OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON POLLINATION. |
| Author: | N.B.M. Brantjes |
| Abstract:
The contributions to the symposium are reviewed by arranging topics into four areas of application, i.e. nature conservation, crop production, seed production and plant breeding. Four phases of an increasing maturity level of pollination technology, form a second arrangement, i.e. passive phase, encouraging phase, domestication phase and insect breeding phase. Eight major advances that feature in this symposium are: 1. The link made between pollination and environmental protection. 2. The methods for raising of public awareness for risks of plant sterility by habitat destruction. 3. The increased public recognition for the applied side of pollination in crop productions. 4. The use of solitary bees and bumblebees for seed production in confinements. 5. The pollination of protected crops by bumblebees. 6. The successful rearing of several consecutive generations of bumblebees. 7. The utilisation of beetles as crop pollinators. 8. The breeding of disease resistances into solitary bees. | |
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