What is it about?
Bees do pollination because flowers attract them, but what do the bees smell in kiwifruit flowers?
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Why is it important?
Understanding the mechanisms underpinning pollination is good risk management.
Perspectives
This work is revealing unusual compounds at the heart of kiwifruit pollination.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Identification of in situ flower volatiles from kiwifruit ( Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa ) cultivars and their male pollenisers in a New Zealand orchard, Phytochemistry, September 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2017.05.011.
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