I am about to initiate my research on flower visitation by honey bees and about when the bees starts getting pollen loads, for this I want to study floral biology of plants belonging to brassicaceae family.So what factors and observations needs to be taken into consideration while studying floral biology of mustard or any other plant belonging to brassicaceae family
Please check the following link and PDF attachment.
http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=XE8464444
You could read Pollination Ecology: A Practical Approach BY Amots Dafni. It you will find lots of parameters. Among them you can select appropriate parameters according to your study.
You can also read following articles
Dear Dalal, you may check:
1. Stamens' structure and arrangement in the flower: whether there are long and short stamens.
2. Honeybee working groups: are there pollen collecting workers, nectar collectors and / or pollen and nectar collectors?
3. Pollen collecting honeybee behavior during visitation: is it touch all stamens' anthers, or only the long ones?
4. Mustard pollen load characters: weight, size, nectar presence and pollen grain arrangement.
See the attached SEM pictures of Sinapis Alba pollen load (about 15 mg) in Israel.
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