Overview of Bee Pollination and Its Economic Value for Crop Production

Khalifa, Shaden A. M.; Elshafiey, Esraa H; Shetaia, Aya A; El-Wahed, Aida Abd; Algethami, Ahmed F.; Musharraf, Syed Ghulam; Alajmi, Mohamed F.; Zhao, Chao; Masry, Saad; Abdel-Daim, Mohamed M.; Halabi, Mohammed Farouq; Kai, Guoyin; Naggar, Yahya Al; Bishr, Mokhtar; Diab, Mohamed A M; El‐Seedi, Hesham R.

doi:10.3390/insects12080688

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“…Bees are considered significant pollinators due to their effectiveness and wide diffusion worldwide. Bee pollination provides excellent value to crop quality and quantity, improving global economic and dietary outcomes [16].…”

Section: Beekeeping and The Impacts Of Environmental Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Antioxidant Properties of Bee Products Derived from Medicinal Plants as Beekeeping Sources

Durazzo¹,

Lucarini²,

Plutino

et al. 2021

Agriculture

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Plant species are fundamental source of nectar in beekeeping since bees access nectar and pollen from flowers. Consequently, bee products are strongly linked to the bee foraging flora source, and, depending on this, they acquire defined features, including their health and medicinal properties. Medicinal plants contribute greatly to increase the beneficial properties of bee products, such as honey, pollen, royal jelly, and propolis. Bee products represent a potential source of natural antioxidants that can counteract the effects of oxidative stress underlying the pathogenesis of many diseases. The antioxidant properties of bee products have been widely studied and there is an abundance of information available in the literature. Notwithstanding, the uniqueness of the presented perspective is to provide an updated overview of the antioxidant properties of bee products derived from medicinal plants as beekeeping sources. This topic is divided and discussed in the text in different sections as follows: (i) beekeeping and the impacts of environmental factors; (ii) an overview of the role of medicinal plants for bee products; (iii) definition and categorization of the main medicinal bee plants and related bee products; (iv) the study approach of the antioxidant properties; (v) the conventional and innovative assays used for the measurement of the antioxidant activity; and (vi) the antioxidant properties of bee products from medicinal plants.

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Section: Beekeeping and The Impacts Of Environmental Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Antioxidant Properties of Bee Products Derived from Medicinal Plants as Beekeeping Sources

Durazzo¹,

Lucarini²,

Plutino

et al. 2021

Agriculture

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“…Honey bee (Apis mellifera) beekeepers are faced with multiple challenges globally when maintaining bee colonies for pollination and honey production [87]. American Foulbrood is a bacterial disease that afflicts the brood and is responsible for huge economic losses in the apiary [88,89].…”

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A Structural Approach to Anti-Virulence: A Discovery Pipeline

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The anti-virulence strategy is designed to prevent bacterial virulence factors produced by pathogenic bacteria from initiating and sustaining an infection. One family of bacterial virulence factors is the mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase toxins, which are produced by pathogens as tools to compromise the target host cell. These toxins are bacterial enzymes that exploit host cellular NAD+ as the donor substrate to modify an essential macromolecule acceptor target in the host cell. This biochemical reaction modifies the target macromolecule (often protein or DNA) and functions in a binary fashion to turn the target activity on or off by blocking or impairing a critical process or pathway in the host. A structural biology approach to the anti-virulence method to neutralize the cytotoxic effect of these factors requires the search and design of small molecules that bind tightly to the enzyme active site and prevent catalytic function essentially disarming the pathogen. This method requires a high-resolution structure to serve as the model for small molecule inhibitor development, which illuminates the path to drug development. This alternative strategy to antibiotic therapy represents a paradigm shift that may circumvent multi-drug resistance in the offending microbe through anti-virulence therapy. In this report, the rationale for the anti-virulence structural approach will be discussed along with recent efforts to apply this method to treat honey bee diseases using natural products.

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“…Given the growing global human population, there is a need to assure food security (Khalifa et al 2021). With this necessity, there have been many researches dealing with plant-pollinator interactions.…”

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Comparative analysis of volatile organic compounds from flowers attractive to honey bees and bumblebees

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Background: Pollinators help plants to reproduce and support economically valuable food for humans and entire ecosystems. However, declines of pollinators along with population growth and increasing agricultural activities hamper this mutual interaction. Nectar and pollen are the major reward for pollinators and flower morphology and volatiles mediate the specialized plant-pollinator interactions. Limited information is available on the volatile profiles attractive to honey bees and bumblebees. In this study we analyzed the volatile organic compounds of the flowers of 9 different plant species that are predominantly visited by honey bees and bumblebees. The chemical compositions of the volatiles were determined using a head space gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method, designed to understand the plant-pollinator chemical interaction. Results: Results showed the monoterpene 1,3,6-octatriene, 3,7-dimethyl-, (E) (E-β-ocimene) was the dominating compound in most flowers analyzed, e.g., in proportion of 60.3% in Lonicera japonica, 48.8% in Diospyros lotus, 38.4% Amorpha fruticosa and 23.7% in Robinia pseudoacacia. Ailanthus altissima exhibited other monoterpenes such as 3,7-dimethyl-1,6-octadien-3-ol (β-linalool) (39.1%) and (5E)-3,5-dimethylocta-1,5,7-trien-3-ol (hotrienol) (32.1%) as predominant compounds. Nitrogen containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were occurring principally in Corydalis speciosa; 1H-pyrrole, 2,3-dimethyl-(50.0%) and pyrimidine, 2-methyl-(40.2%), and in Diospyros kaki; 1-triazene, 3,3-dimethyl-1-phenyl (40.5%). Ligustrum obtusifolium flower scent contains isopropoxycarbamic acid, ethyl ester (21.1%) and n-octane (13.4%) as major compounds. In Castanea crenata the preeminent compound is 1-phenylethanone (acetophenone) (46.7%). Conclusions: Olfactory cues are important for pollinators to locate their floral resources. Based on our results we conclude monoterpenes might be used as major chemical mediators attractive to both honey bees and bumblebees to their host flowers. However, the mode of action of these chemicals and possible synergistic effects for olfaction need further investigation.

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Overview of Bee Pollination and Its Economic Value for Crop Production

Cited by 146 publications

References 205 publications

Antioxidant Properties of Bee Products Derived from Medicinal Plants as Beekeeping Sources

Antioxidant Properties of Bee Products Derived from Medicinal Plants as Beekeeping Sources

A Structural Approach to Anti-Virulence: A Discovery Pipeline

Comparative analysis of volatile organic compounds from flowers attractive to honey bees and bumblebees

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