Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races.
Royal jelly (RJ) is an acidic yellowish-white secretion of worker honey bee glands, used as food material of worker bee larvae for the first three days and queen bee larvae for the entire life. It is commercially used in cosmetics and medicinal industry in various parts of the world. This study dete...
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| description | Royal jelly (RJ) is an acidic yellowish-white secretion of worker honey bee glands, used as food material of worker bee larvae for the first three days and queen bee larvae for the entire life. It is commercially used in cosmetics and medicinal industry in various parts of the world. This study determined the queen cell acceptance rate and RJ production difference among Italian and Carniolan bee races. Furthermore, the effect of plastic cup cell priming media, diets and seasons were tested on the larval cell acceptance rate and RJ yield of both races. The results indicated that average queen cell acceptance rate was significantly (p<0.001) higher in Italian race (75.53 ± 1.41%) than Carniolan race (58.20 ± 1.30%). Similarly, mean RJ yield per colony significantly (p<0.001) differed between both bee races, which were 13.10 ± 0.42 g and 9.66 ± 0.43 g, in Italian and Carniolan races, respectively. Moreover, priming media, diets and seasons significantly (p<0.001) affected queen cell acceptance rate and RJ production of both bee races. This study would help breeders to select the bees with higher-level of queen cell acceptance rate and RJ production in the future. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5656fbc46f544c25a2cf9f3609c87eed2025-08-20T02:55:35ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01164e024859310.1371/journal.pone.0248593Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races.Khalid Ali KhanHamed A GhramhZubair AhmadMogbel A A El-NiweiriMohamed Elimam Ahamed MohammedRoyal jelly (RJ) is an acidic yellowish-white secretion of worker honey bee glands, used as food material of worker bee larvae for the first three days and queen bee larvae for the entire life. It is commercially used in cosmetics and medicinal industry in various parts of the world. This study determined the queen cell acceptance rate and RJ production difference among Italian and Carniolan bee races. Furthermore, the effect of plastic cup cell priming media, diets and seasons were tested on the larval cell acceptance rate and RJ yield of both races. The results indicated that average queen cell acceptance rate was significantly (p<0.001) higher in Italian race (75.53 ± 1.41%) than Carniolan race (58.20 ± 1.30%). Similarly, mean RJ yield per colony significantly (p<0.001) differed between both bee races, which were 13.10 ± 0.42 g and 9.66 ± 0.43 g, in Italian and Carniolan races, respectively. Moreover, priming media, diets and seasons significantly (p<0.001) affected queen cell acceptance rate and RJ production of both bee races. This study would help breeders to select the bees with higher-level of queen cell acceptance rate and RJ production in the future.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248593&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Khalid Ali Khan Hamed A Ghramh Zubair Ahmad Mogbel A A El-Niweiri Mohamed Elimam Ahamed Mohammed Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races. PLoS ONE |
| title | Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races. |
| title_full | Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races. |
| title_fullStr | Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races. |
| title_short | Queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two Apis mellifera races. |
| title_sort | queen cells acceptance rate and royal jelly production in worker honey bees of two apis mellifera races |
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