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Behaviour of bees visiting male-sterile field beans (Vicia faba)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. A. Bond  and
R. P. Hawkins
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1. A colony of honey-bees was put beside a 1/36 acre plot of male-sterile and male-fertile spring beans in 1965, but very little bean pollen was collected and no honey-bees were seen pollinating either male-fertile or male-sterile flowers.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 243 - 247
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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