The concentrations of air-borne rape pollen over a crop of oil-seed rape (Brassica napus L.)
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Agricultural Science
- Vol. 103 (2), 353-357
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021859600047316
Abstract
The air over a crop of flowering winter oil-seed rape was sampled for 39 days with an automatic volumetric spore trap. Considerable quantities of rape pollen were caught on most days. Density of pollen showed marked diel periodicity; few grains were caught at night and at mid-day, peaks occurred in late morning and early afternoon. It is concluded that wind plays a considerable role in pollination of the crop.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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