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Hand and bee-collected pollen have
been used for mechanical or hand pollination. The viability of
hand-collected pollen can be maintained for a few weeks or months
by frozen storage. Bee-collected pollen however, starts losing its
viability after a few hours and increasingly with age. It is
believed that some of the enzymes added by bees during foraging
inhibit the pollen's ability to germinate on the flower stigma
(Johansen, 1955, and Lukoschus and Keularts, 1968). Large-scale
applications with mechanical dusters or by using dusted honeybees
for dispersion were only moderately successful.
See also:
Uses of Bee
Pollen for Pollution Monitoring
Bee Pollen Allergies-Hay
Fever
Beebread: Pollen Stored
by Honey Bees
Uses of Bee Pollen In
Cosmetics
Uses of Bee
Pollen In Crop Pollination
Bee Pollen Uses in Food
Bee Pollen Uses in
Medicine
The physiological effects of Bee Pollen |
