ANBAR JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Abstract

This study was done in the fields of Agriculture College University of Bagdad in the period between 2008-2009 to determine the effect of cross pollination by honey bee Apis mellifera on the quantitative and qualitative characters of faba bean plants. The results indicated that the percentage of the number of the honey bee which visited the flower were 86.93%, and the other insects were 13.07%. and the real number of the honey bee which visited the flowers was 35.6 one flower/ one hour. The number of other insects was 4.24. The experiments showed that the mean weight of the yield of un capping plants individual/ flower was 359.07gm for one plant, in another side the capping plants production was 168.96 gm.

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The quality characteristics (the length legumes and, production were increased in uncapping plants, The length of the buds was 18.86 cm in the un capping experiments and 15.36 cm in the copping one, The diameter of the buds was 1.93 cm in un copping plants and 1.30 cm in copping plants, and the mean weight of the buds was 38.40 gm in the un copping and 25.63 gm in the cooping plant, The mean number of the seeds in the buds was 5.15 seed in the un copping and 4.02 seed in copping one.