Inoculation of pear flowers with Metschnikowia reukaufii and Acinetobacter nectaris enhances attraction of honeybees and hoverflies, but does not increase fruit and seed set

• Agneta Colda ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: agneta.colda@kuleuven.be (AC); bart.lievens@kuleuven.be (BL)

  Affiliation Division of Crop Biotechnics, Laboratory for Fruit Breeding and Biotechnology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8677-6421

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• Sofie Bossaert,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Center of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9111-0816

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• Christel Verreth,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Center of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Bart Vanhoutte,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Center for Fruit Growing, Sint-Truiden, Belgium

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• Olivier Honnay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, Department of Biology, Plant Conservation and Population Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Wannes Keulemans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Crop Biotechnics, Laboratory for Fruit Breeding and Biotechnology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Bart Lievens

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: agneta.colda@kuleuven.be (AC); bart.lievens@kuleuven.be (BL)

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Center of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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