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Research Needs for Better Fruit Productivity

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Pollination is an essential ecosystem service and a prerequisite for fertilization and fruit/seed set. The relationship between plants and pollinator is a mutualistic one in which pollinators get food in the form of nectar and pollen and in turn pollinate the plants. Sprengel (1793) published his findings on the interactions between flowers and insects and stated that transfer of pollen from stamens to the stigma was necessary for seeds and fruit production. Since then much has been known and it is established that more than 300,000 species of animals depend upon floral resources (Buchmann and Nabhan 1996).

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Abrol, D.P. (2015). Research Needs for Better Fruit Productivity. In: Pollination Biology, Vol.1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21085-8_11

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