Submitted by Setor de Tratamento da Informa??o - BC/PUCRS (tede2@pucrs.br) on 2016-08-24T17:03:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_JENIFER_DIAS_RAMOS_COMPLETO.pdf: 1466581 bytes, checksum: 091ba12f63ed24b82082dae8976b70b7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-24T17:03:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_JENIFER_DIAS_RAMOS_COMPLETO.pdf: 1466581 bytes, checksum: 091ba12f63ed24b82082dae8976b70b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-21 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Pollination is an important ecosystem service responsible for the production and quality of 33% of agricultural crops. In the agricultural context, the bees are the main pollinators, and Apis mellifera, the main species managed for pollination of crops. Among these it highlights the cultivation of apple, which is a species that has many varieties with a high degree of incompatibility, requiring the presence of ?pollinazier? varieties of calls in the orchards, which provide pollen for cross-pollination.The apple planting system usually in Brazil consists of alternating rows of the commercial cultivar with lines of the "pollinator" cultivar, being common the use of Apis mellifera colonies to ensure cross-pollination. This thesis is divided into two papers, the first entitled "Evaluation of apple trees planting systems with respect to the pollinaton performance of Apis mellifera" whose objective was to evaluated the efficiency of two planting systems with respect to the pollination performance of Apis mellifera. The study was conducted in an 'Gala' apple orchard that presented two planting systems: (1) conventional, consisting of three lines of the commercial cultivar ('Gala') and two rows of the ?pollinizer? cultivar ('Fuji'); (2) planting with ?crab-apples?, which consists in planting wild apple trees every six meters in the line of the commercial cultivar. Fruis from these systems were analysed in relation to weight, seed number and distribution among carpels. We followed 121 bees during foraging flight: 14% of them crossed between the lines of the orchard and 94% collected nectar. There was correlation between fruit weight and number of seeds, and the fruits of the? crab-apple? system had more seeds (6 ? 2) than the fruit of conventional system (5 ? 2). These results indicate that the planting system with ?crab-apples? is better considering the foraging behavior of honey bees. The second article entitled "Attractiveness of floral resources of apple to Apis mellifera" whose objective was to compare the offer of floral resources between cultivars of Malus domestica 'Fuji ', 'Fuji Suprema ', ' Gala' and ' Imperial Gala' and to evaluate the visitation rate of Apis mellifera. In a collection orchard it were evaluated the floral abundance, the nectar volume and its soluble solids content (Brix) and the number of pollen grains per flower for the four varieties. Besides this, in an experimental orchard, the visitation rate of Apis mellifera in ?Fuji? and ?Gala? was verified and a linear mixed model calculated to verify which cultivar was the most attractive. ?Gala? was the most attractive for the bees, presenting higher abundance of flowers, volume of nectar and amount of pollen grains per flower. Comparing the flower resources of all cultivars, ?Imperial Gala? can be considered the most attractive. was to compare the offer of floral resources between cultivars of Malus domestica 'Fuji ', 'Fuji Suprema ', ' Gala' and ' Imperial Gala' and to evaluate the visitation rate of Apis mellifera. In a collection orchard it were evaluated the floral abundance, the nectar volume and its soluble solids content (Brix) and the number of pollen grains per flower for the four varieties. Besides this, in an experimental orchard, the visitation rate of Apis mellifera in ?Fuji? and ?Gala? was verified and a linear mixed model calculated to verify which cultivar was the most attractive. ?Gala? was the most attractive for the bees, presenting higher abundance of flowers, volume of nectar and amount of pollen grains per flower. Comparing the flower resources of all cultivars, ?Imperial Gala? can be considered the most attractive. / A poliniza??o ? um importante servi?o ecossist?mico respons?vel pela produ??o e qualidade de 33% das culturas agr?colas. No ?mbito agr?cola, as abelhas s?o os principais agentes polinizadores, sendo Apis mellifera, a principal esp?cie manejada para a poliniza??o de culturas. Dentre estas destaca-se o cultivo da macieira, a qual ? uma esp?cie que apresenta muitas cultivares com alto grau de incompatibilidade, sendo necess?ria a presen?a de cultivares chamadas de polinizadoras nos pomares, as quais fornecem p?len para a poliniza??o cruzada. O sistema de plantio de macieira mais comum no Brasil consiste em linhas da cultivar comercial alternadas com linhas da cultivar "polinizadora", sendo comum o uso de col?nias de A. mellifera para assegurar a poliniza??o cruzada. Esta disserta??o divide-se em dois artigos cient?ficos, o primeiro intitulado ?Avalia??o de sistemas de plantio de macieiras em rela??o ? performance polinizadora de Apis mellifera?, cujo objetivo foi avaliar a efici?ncia de dois sistemas de plantio com rela??o ? performance polinizadora de A. mellifera. O estudo foi conduzido em um pomar de ma?? 'Gala', que apresentava dois sistemas de plantio: (1) convencional, que consiste em tr?s linhas da cultivar comercial ('Gala') e duas linhas da cultivar "polinizadora" ('Fuji'); (2) plantio com 'flor?feras?, que consiste na planta??o de ?rvores de ma?? selvagem a cada seis metros na linha da cultivar comercial. Frutos desses sistemas foram analisados em rela??o ao peso, n?mero e distribui??o de sementes nos carpelos. Seguimos 121 abelhas durante o v?o de forrageamento: 14% delas cruzaram entre as linhas do pomar e 94% coletaram n?ctar. Houve correla??o entre o peso dos frutos e n?mero de sementes e os frutos do sistema com flor?feras apresentaram mais sementes (6 ? 2) do que os frutos do sistema convencional (5 ? 2). Estes resultados indicam que o sistema de plantio com flor?feras foi relativamente melhor considerando o comportamento de forrageamento de A. mellifera. E o segundo artigo intitulado ?Atratividade dos recursos florais de macieira para Apis mellifera?, cujo objetivo foi comparar a oferta de recursos florais entre as cultivares de Malus domestica ?Fuji?, ?Fuji Suprema?, ?Gala? e ?Imperial Gala? e avaliar a taxa de visita??o de A. mellifera. Em um pomar de cole??es, foi avaliado a abund?ncia floral, o volume do n?ctar e seu teor de S?lidos Sol?veis Totais (?Brix) e o n?mero de gr?os de p?len por flor para as quatro cultivares. Al?m disso, em um pomar experimental, foi verificada a taxa de visita??o de A. mellifera nas flores das cultivares ?Gala? e ?Fuji? e calculado um modelo linear generalizado misto para verificar qual a cultivar mais atrativa. ?Gala? foi mais atrativa para as abelhas, apresentando maior abund?ncia de flores, volume de n?ctar e quantidade de gr?os de p?len por flor. Comparando os recursos florais das cultivares analisadas (?Fuji?, ?Fuji Suprema?, ?Gala? e ?Imperial Gala?), ?Imperial Gala? pode ser considerada a cultivar mais atrativa.