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- Title
Impact de l'activité de butinage de Dactylurina staudingeri Gribodo (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sur la pollinisation et les rendements de Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh (Fabaceae) à Dang (Ngaoundéré, Cameroun).
- Authors
Venceslas, ZRA GANAVA; SANDA, MAZI; Michelson, AZO'O ELA; Sidonie, FAMENI TOPE; Fernand-Nestor, TCHUENGUEM FOHOUO
- Abstract
Investigations were made on the flowers of Cajanus cajan in order to estimate the impact of the activity of Dactylurina staudingeri on pollination and yields at Dang, in 2016 and 2017. For each of these years, 540 flowers buds labeled on 120 plants were divided into four treatments: 120 open-pollinated flowers, 120 bagged flowers, 200 flowers protected, then unbagged, exclusively visited once by D. staudingeri and rebagged, and 100 flowers bagged, unbagged and rebagged without insect or any other organism visit. The fruiting rate, the mean number of seeds per pod and the percentage of normal seeds were compared between these treatments. Among 33 insect species recorded, D. staudingeri was prominent with 12.19% of 6037 visits. This bee harvested intensely nectar and collected slightly pollen from C. cajan flowers. The mean foraging speed was 7.14 flowers/min. Through the pollinating efficiency of a single flower visit, D. staudingeri increased the fruiting rate by 14.71%, the mean number of seeds per pod by 35.29% and the percentage of normal seeds by 17.31%. The conservation of D. staudingeri colonies close to C. cajan farms is recommended to improve yields of the crop and to promote the good meliponiculture in the region.
- Subjects
PIGEON pea; EXPERIMENTAL biology
- Publication
Cameroon Journal of Experimental Biology, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1816-0573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/cajeb.v14i1.1