Bee pollination and fruit set of Coffea arabica and C. canephora (Rubiaceae)
Bee pollination and fruit set of Coffea arabica and C. canephora (Rubiaceae)
- American Journal of Botany, 90(1), p.153-157, 2003 .
Self-sterile Coffea canephora and self-fertile C. arabica are important cash crops in many tropical countries. We examined the relative importance of insect, wind, and spontaneous self-pollination and the degree of self-fertility of these two coffee species in 24 agroforestry coffee fields in Indonesia. In both species, open pollination and cross pollination by hand led to the highest fruit set. Wind pollination (including self-pollination)led to 16
AGROFORESTRY
COFFEA
INDONESIA
PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS
RUBIACEAE
SULAWESI
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Self-sterile Coffea canephora and self-fertile C. arabica are important cash crops in many tropical countries. We examined the relative importance of insect, wind, and spontaneous self-pollination and the degree of self-fertility of these two coffee species in 24 agroforestry coffee fields in Indonesia. In both species, open pollination and cross pollination by hand led to the highest fruit set. Wind pollination (including self-pollination)led to 16
AGROFORESTRY
COFFEA
INDONESIA
PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS
RUBIACEAE
SULAWESI
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE