Within the present paper there are presented the results of researches carried out in the period 2002-2007 on an assortment of 40 sunflower hybrids with respect to their melliferous characteristics, which represent elements of interest for sunflower grower in view to assure the pollination by the help of melliferous bees, but also for the beekeeper who is leaving in pastoral with its beehives to the sunflower crops. The experiments were carried out within the experimental field belonging to the Field Crop Production Department of the Faculty of Agriculture from Bucharest, located at SDE Moara Domnească (15 km faraway from Bucharest on North-East direction), on a reddish preluvosoil.

sunflower; hybrids; melliferous characteristics; Pollinationp

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