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DOI	10.1002/jemt.24091
	Pollen morphology of selected melliferous plants and its taxonomic implications using microscopy
	Attique, Rafia; Zafar, Muhammad; Ahmad, Mushtaq; Zafar, Sadia; Ghufran, Muhammad Asad; Mustafa, Muhammad Raza Ul; Yaseen, Ghulam; Ahmad, Latif; Sultana, Shazia; Nabila; Zafar, Aqeela; Majeed, Salman
通讯作者	Zafar, M
来源期刊	MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
ISSN	1059-910X
EISSN	1097-0029
出版年	2022
卷号	85 期号:7 页码:2361-2380
英文摘要	This research aimed to explore the melliferous bee flora pollen from arid zones of District Attock, Islamabad Capital and Rawalpindi. Morpho-palynological features has provided key information for the classification and help to explain the taxonomy of several genera and species. Therefore, in this work, we examined the morphological characters of pollen potentially to be used for the species delimitation of bee flora. A total of 18 bee floral species, classified into 12 different families were collected, pressed, identified and then acetolyized to observe the grains under microscopy. Bee pollen can be described by small, medium to large sized morphotypes presenting five types of shapes, prolate spheroidal in (seven species), sub-prolate (six species), oblate spheroidal (three species), oblate and prolate (one species each) was examined. The observed polar and equatorial diameter were found maximum in Zea mays 73.5 mu m and Pelargonium inquinans 66.75 mu m respectively. Pollen of six different types was found namely: tricolporate, 3-zonocolporate, monoportae, tetracolporate, tetraporate and mononsulcate. Whereas highest value of colpi length was measured in Grewia tenax (24.55 mu m). Exine surface nature of pollen was examined echinate psilate and scabrate. Exine thickness noted to be maximum in Verbena tenuisecta (8.40 mu m) and minimum in Citrus macrocarpa (0.4 mu m). Bee floral species considered difficult to identify based on other morphological traits were successfully distinguished using pollen quantitative and qualitative traits, confirming the importance of pollen morphology to diagnose characters to correctly identify honeybee flora.
英文关键词	Bee flora Melliferous plants Microscopy Palyno-morph
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000765974300001
WOS关键词	SCANNING-ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY ; LEAF EPIDERMAL ANATOMY ; DEOSAI PLATEAU ; ALPINE ZONE ; KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA ; LIGHT-MICROSCOPY ; NATIONAL-PARK ; SALT RANGE ; FLORA ; IDENTIFICATION
WOS类目	Anatomy & Morphology ; Biology ; Microscopy
WOS研究方向	Anatomy & Morphology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Microscopy
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/393798
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Attique, Rafia,Zafar, Muhammad,Ahmad, Mushtaq,et al. Pollen morphology of selected melliferous plants and its taxonomic implications using microscopy[J],2022,85(7):2361-2380.
APA	Attique, Rafia.,Zafar, Muhammad.,Ahmad, Mushtaq.,Zafar, Sadia.,Ghufran, Muhammad Asad.,...&Majeed, Salman.(2022).Pollen morphology of selected melliferous plants and its taxonomic implications using microscopy.MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE,85(7),2361-2380.
MLA	Attique, Rafia,et al."Pollen morphology of selected melliferous plants and its taxonomic implications using microscopy".MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE 85.7(2022):2361-2380.