Abstract
Tomato plants are widely grown in Indonesia using the open agriculture system. However, the widespread application of pesticides in horticultural farming, such as tomato, has prevented pollinators from visiting flowers, contributing to decreased diversity and population due to climate change and pollen and nectar availability in agroecosystems. This study aimed to determine the effects of pollination by stingless bee (Tetragonula laeviceps) on pollination success, fruit yield, and estimated productivity on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Furthermore, the effects of T. laeviceps as a pollinator was investigated on the physical and chemical characteristics of tomato fruit. This study used two treatments: with and without meliponiculture T. laeviceps. Pollination success and fruit yield increased on with meliponiculture (30.91% and 68.68%, respectively) compared without meliponiculture. The physical (fruit weight, diameter, and mesocarp) and chemical characteristics (moisture content, titratable acidity, total soluble solids, ascorbic acid, and lycopene) of tomato fruit were not affected by T. laeviceps pollination. Meliponiculture T. laeviceps increased pollination success, fruit yield, and estimated productivity but had no effects on the physical and chemical characteristics of tomato fruit. The application of meliponiculture T. laeviceps in tomato plantations proved to be a valuable strategy for increasing productivity.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Meliponiculture increased tomato pollination success by 30.91% relative to no meliponiculture.
- Taxon
- tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- with meliponiculturee0
- Outcome
- Pollination successe0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 30.91%e0
- Comparator
- without meliponiculturee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pollination success and fruit yield increased on with meliponiculture (30.91% and 68.68%, respectively) compared without meliponiculture”
t0“tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Meliponiculture increased tomato fruit yield by 68.68% relative to no meliponiculture.
- Taxon
- tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)Solanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- with meliponiculturee0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 68.68%e0
- Comparator
- without meliponiculturee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pollination success and fruit yield increased on with meliponiculture (30.91% and 68.68%, respectively) compared without meliponiculture”
t0“tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
T. laeviceps pollination did not affect tomato fruit weight, diameter or mesocarp.
- Taxon
- tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)Solanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- T. laeviceps pollinatione0
- Interactor
- T. laeviceps
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Tetragonula laevicepse0pollinator - Outcome
- fruit weight, diameter, and mesocarpe0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
_and_Stingless_Bee_(Tetragonula_laeviceps_%3F)_on_Wild_Banana_(Musa_campestris)_male_flowers_(15609905232).jpg?width=500)
Verbatim
e0“The physical (fruit weight, diameter, and mesocarp) and chemical characteristics (moisture content, titratable acidity, total soluble solids, ascorbic acid, and lycopene) of tomato fruit were not affected by T. laeviceps pollination”
t0“tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
T. laeviceps pollination did not affect fruit moisture, acidity or soluble solids.
- Taxon
- tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)Solanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- T. laeviceps pollinatione0
- Interactor
- T. laevicepsTetragonula laevicepse0pollinator
- Outcome
- moisture content, titratable acidity, total soluble solidse0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The physical (fruit weight, diameter, and mesocarp) and chemical characteristics (moisture content, titratable acidity, total soluble solids, ascorbic acid, and lycopene) of tomato fruit were not affected by T. laeviceps pollination”
t0“tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
T. laeviceps pollination did not affect fruit ascorbic acid or lycopene.
- Taxon
- tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)Solanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- T. laeviceps pollinatione0
- Interactor
- T. laevicepsTetragonula laevicepse0pollinator
- Outcome
- ascorbic acid, and lycopenee0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The physical (fruit weight, diameter, and mesocarp) and chemical characteristics (moisture content, titratable acidity, total soluble solids, ascorbic acid, and lycopene) of tomato fruit were not affected by T. laeviceps pollination”
t0“tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Meliponiculture increased estimated tomato productivity.
- Taxon
- tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)Solanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Meliponiculture T. laevicepse0
- Interactor
- T. laevicepsTetragonula laevicepse0pollinator
- Outcome
- estimated productivitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Meliponiculture T. laeviceps increased pollination success, fruit yield, and estimated productivity”
t0“tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend T. laeviceps meliponiculture to increase tomato productivity.
- Taxon
- tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)Solanum lycopersicumt0
- Interactor
- T. laevicepsTetragonula laevicepse0pollinator
- Outcome
- application of meliponiculture T. laeviceps in tomato plantationse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The application of meliponiculture T. laeviceps in tomato plantations proved to be a valuable strategy for increasing productivity”
t0“tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)”
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