Alternative sources of supplements in Africanized honeybees submitted to royal jelly production

Sereia, Maria Josiane; Toledo, Vagner de Alencar Arnaut de; Furlan, Antônio Cláudio; Faquinello, Patrícia; Costa-Maia, Fabiana Martins; Wielewski, Priscila

doi:10.4025/actascianimsci.v35i2.16976

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“…Royal jelly production may be an alternative income for beekeepers in regions where honey production is low in periods of low flowering or sugarcane regions where honeydew does not reach the commercial value of floral honey, in addition to being less accepted by consumers. However, when analyzing production with Africanized honeybees, we observe values that are still far from those obtained in China, which currently accounts for 90% of world production, with colonies that produce up to 10 kg per colony per year (Blomstedt, 2013;Sereia et al, 2013).…”

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Royal jelly production in Africanized colonies with selected queens, use of Chinese model cups and supplementation

Pereira

Santos

Rossoni

et al. 2019

Acta Sci. Anim. Sci.

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This research was carried out to evaluate the royal jelly production in two trials. In Trial I, three genotypes of Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) were submitted to royal jelly production with two types of cups of different size and volume (conventional and Chinese model) and two types of supplements (commercial and formulated). A total of 24 colonies were used, two bars with different cups each, alternating between the upper or lower position of the frame. While in Trial II, 18 colonies, two genotypes, two types of cups and two types of supplement were tested. The evaluated parameters were: percentage of larvae accepted in upper and lower bars, royal jelly per cup (mg), and royal jelly per colony/collection (g). Chinese cups were not well accepted, fact that influenced in a negative way the production of general form, selected colonies were more sensible to the change of cups. Colonies of Africanized honeybees are not prepared to produce in cups of greater volume.

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confidence: 72%

Royal jelly production in Africanized colonies with selected queens, use of Chinese model cups and supplementation

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Santos

Rossoni

et al. 2019

Acta Sci. Anim. Sci.

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“…Faquinello et al [10] reported average larvae acceptance of 52.13%, which agrees with the performance of almost all genotypes in this study. Sereia et al [39] observed differences for the grafted larvae acceptance with a mixture of linseed oil + palm oil and isolated soy protein + brewer's yeast that had, respectively, 63.45% and 63.75% when compared with palm, linseed, isolated soy protein, yeasts and controls I and II (45.80%, 49.71%, 50.32%, 50.95%, 49.60%, and 52.17%, respectively).…”

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“…Toledo and Mouro [35] stated that the amount of royal jelly obtained per cup varies with the time that is left within the colony and obtained average of 253 mg/cup for Africanized and 198 mg/cup for Carniolian honeybees. Sereia et al [39] observed differences for the percentage of total acceptance of grafted larvae with a mixture of linseed oil + palm oil and isolated soy protein + brewer's yeast that had, respectively, 63.45% and 63.75% of accepted cups when compared with palm, linseed, isolated soy protein, yeast, and controls I and II (45.80%, 49.71%, 50.32%, 50.95%, 49.60%, and 52.17%, respectively). [41] studied the supplements with different nutrients in honeybee diet and found that by having a glandular origin, royal jelly production varies with the nutritional quality of the available sources and recommended protein supplementation to royal jelly production in honeybee colonies, still being economically viable the beekeeper [42].…”

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“…However, Zheng et al [21] recommended that the new standard assessments for royal jelly quality in China consider the collection time, because they found significant differences in the sample quality after 24, 48, and 72 h the larvae grafting. Sereia et al [39] concluded that the average amount of royal jelly deposited every 68 h per cup was higher when supplemented with isolated soy protein, brewer's yeast, palm oil, and linseed oil. Some studies reported variation in royal jelly production of Apis mellifera L. Africanized honeybees from 188 to 234 mg/cup [10,35,40].…”

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Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Ostrovski-Tomporoski¹,

Faquinello²,

MartinsCosta-Maia³

et al. 2016

Beekeeping and Bee Conservation - Advances in Research

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This research was carried out to infer the genetic value to produce royal jelly in Africanized Apis mellifera L. honeybees with the compilation of data collected from 2006 to 2011. Genetic information of the selected and accessed colonies was obtained using the total DNA extraction techniques of nurse honeybees' thorax with molecular markers for MRJP3 protein and characterized in Apis mellifera L. From the information on the colonies and genealogical structure were predicted genetic values of the colonies and queens for the larvae acceptance trait (%), royal jelly per colony (g), and royal jelly per cup (mg). Animal model with Bayesian Inference was used from Multiple Trait Gibbs Sampling software in Animal Models, Gibbs chains 58,500 cycles resulting from 650,000 cycles with intervals and disposal of 65,000 and 10 withdraw, respectively. From the predicted values, the colonies were classified into upper and lower. To compare the average of the genetic values according to the genotypes, the average multiple comparison tests were proceeded and implemented in routine PROC GENMOD from the Statistical Analysis System. Environmental effects were considered, time and hive type (standard Langstroth) as having flat distribution and collection as chi-square distribution. The studies presented an increase in the alleles C and D and the alleles D and E-referring to MRJPs-found in the highest genetic value for royal jelly production. Alleles D, E, and C are important when evaluating the parameters larvae acceptance, royal jelly per colony, and royal jelly per cup and, occasionally, it was the DE genotype that stood out royal jelly production. Genotypes DE, DC, and EC are those that should be kept in this evaluation system for royal jelly production, and the other genotypes should be discarded because they had the worst performance for the parameters evaluated.

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“…The period is just after spring propagation of honeybee colonies, thus high activity level of honeybee colonies results in large amounts of pollen, honey and high yield of RJ as well (Stocker et al, 2005). Since RJ is secreted by worker bees, which feed on bee bread made by pollens and honey (Sereia et al, 2013). Therefore, compounds of RJ (both volatile and non-volatile) are influenced by bee bread and nutrition of which depends on the pollen.…”

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Differential volatile organic compounds in royal jelly associated with different nectar plants

Zhao

Tian

et al. 2016

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

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The aim of this work was to distinguish volatile organic compound (VOC) profiles of royal jelly (RJ) from different nectar plants. Headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) was used to extract VOCs from raw RJ harvested from 10 nectar plants in flowering seasons. Qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis of VOCs extracts were performed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Results showed that VOC profiles of RJ from the samples were rich in acid, ester and aldehyde compound classes, however, contents of them were differential, exemplified by the data from acetic acid, benzoic acid methyl ester, hexanoic acid and octanoic acid. As a conclusion, these four VOCs compounds can be used for distinguishing RJ harvested in the seasons of different nectar plants.

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Alternative sources of supplements in Africanized honeybees submitted to royal jelly production

Cited by 10 publications

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Royal jelly production in Africanized colonies with selected queens, use of Chinese model cups and supplementation

Royal jelly production in Africanized colonies with selected queens, use of Chinese model cups and supplementation

Breeding Program Design Principles for Royal Jelly

Differential volatile organic compounds in royal jelly associated with different nectar plants

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