Supplementary honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) pollination enhances fruit growth rate and fruit yield in Paeonia ostii (family: Paeoniaceae)

• Kaiyue Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Agriculture / Tree Peony, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, China

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• Yuying Li,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation College of Agriculture / Tree Peony, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, China

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• Kaili Sun,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, China

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• Junyi Bao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation College of Agriculture / Tree Peony, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, China

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• Chunling He ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hkdhxg@haust.edu.cn (XH); hechunling68@126.com (CH)

  Affiliation College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, China

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• Xiaogai Hou

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  * E-mail: hkdhxg@haust.edu.cn (XH); hechunling68@126.com (CH)

  Affiliation College of Agriculture / Tree Peony, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0126-2080

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