Honey bee visits on seed production in onion Badade G.M.*, Nalwandikar P.K., Sonkamble M.M., Shetgar S.S. Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Latur Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidhyapeeth, Parbhani, Maharashtra *Email: npratap59@rediffmail.com
Online published on 4 January, 2018. Abstract Apis florea inhabited onion plots under caged condition resulted in maximum number of seeds per umbel (700 seeds/umbel), 1000 seed weight (3.78 g), yield kg/ha (590.37 kg/ha), seed setting (95.23%), germination percentage (90%) and lowest crinkled seed percentage (4.77%). On the other hand, lowest number of seeds per umbel (560.20 seeds/umbel), 1000 seed weight (2.95 g), seed setting (74.56%), seed germination (78.00%) and highest crinkled seeds (16.22%) were recorded without it. Top Keywords Apis spp, caged condition, seeds per umbel, 1000 seed weight, yield, germination, seed setting. Top |