D.A. Bond’s scientific contributions

... Within Egypt, flowering minority crops have been linked with enhanced pollination and fruit set of almonds within traditional orchards (Norfolk et al., 2016). Although broad bean is able to self-fertilize, insect mediated cross-pollination can increase yield and bees are particularly effective pollinators (Riedel &Wort, 1960;Free, 1966;Kendall & Smith, 1975;Poulsen, 1975;Bond & Kirby, 1999;Bishnoi et al., 2012). Incorporating flowering plants into cropping systems has the potential to actively enhance pollination and crops yields. ...

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Bees visiting the broad bean (Vicia faba L.) and the impact of border planting on their abundance and the yield improvement in Ismailia, Egypt

... increase in yield/plant under bee pollination condition than those under self-pollinated condition could be attributed primarily to more pods/plant and number of seeds/pod in the earlier case. On the other hand, the reductions in performance of bean plants in self-generated entries proved the importance of bee pollination in the plants resulted from self-fertilization as reported by many workers[27] [28], and that is why in the open-pollinated conditions faba bean yield fluctuated from year to year as the bean population plants are in different degree of self-fertilization. The overall average improvement in performance due to bee pollination in the present work, as demonstrated inFigure 2, was 22%, ...

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Impact of Bee Pollination on Yield of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Grown under Semi-Arid Conditions