Scientists invent ‘superfood’ they hope will save honeybees and boost global food security
Scientists have designed a food supplement for bees, which they said they would have a comprehensive effect on global food safety.
Experts, yeast strain honey bees will help to live as longer as intense agriculture, and the climate crisis will rob flowers and pollen insects, he says.
It is hoped that the breakthrough will prevent the decrease in wild bee populations, important pollutors. They help to contribute to the production of at least 70 percent of large global crops such as almonds, apples and cherries.
However, nutrient deficiencies, climate change, flow invasions, viral diseases and insecticides caused a significant threat to food safety and biological diversity.
Scientists in Oxford genetically designed a yeast strain Yarrowia lipolytica To produce vital foods called sterol not found in artificial pollen substitutes used by beekeepers.
Commercial supplements made of protein flour, sugar and oils lack correct sterol compounds.
After a three -month attempt, scientists found that the colonies fed with sterol enriched yeasts were compared to the colonies fed by controlled diets, and that they rose to the larvae 15 times more to the live pupal stage and significantly drawn to the club.
“To include sterol supplements in pollen substitutes, the use of this method will enable honey bee colonies to produce breeders in the absence of flower pollen,” they wrote. Nature.
“Optimized diets created using this yeast strain can reduce the competition between bee types for access to natural flower sources and eliminate the decrease in wild bee populations.”
Maya diet said honey bees provide all the nutrients to survive in six sterols.
The chief writer Elynor Moore said: için For bees, the difference between sterol enriched diet and traditional bee feeds will be comparable to the difference between lacking meals such as fundamental foods such as eating and fundamental fatty acids.
“Using precise fermentation, we can now provide bees a special feed that is completed as nutrients as nutrients.”
Sterols are difficult to reproduce, so experts who have spent 15 years to improve them, said the success of the essays is a great success.
They say that larger -scale field trials are required to assess long -term effects on colony health and pollination activity, but potentially available for farmers within two years.
