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Pollen genotyping by SABER-MassARRAY reveals that fewer than half of honey bee visits can cross-pollinate a self-incompatible crop.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 1 Jun 2025
Kämper Wiebke, Wallace Helen M, Trueman Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Pollen limitation occurs when insufficient pollen or the wrong pollen genotype reaches the stigma. The pollination efficiency of flower visitors to crops has been investigated, but the genotypes of crop pollen carried have rarely been identified. We developed a method that detects SNPs in the pollen carried by single bees, using a customized single allele base extension reaction (SABER) with MassARRAY to...
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- Bees
- Animals
- Pollination
- Pollen
- Genotype
- Crops, Agricultural
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
