Abstract
The properties of fruits produced by the blue honeysuckle hybrid cultivar Berel under different pollination conditions while grown in the north-east of China and in West Siberia were examined. The frequent incidence of leaves chlorosis and partenocarphy of Lonicera caerulea L. was recorded for the first time.
Highlights
Plant material is the major source for producing more than one third of all medicines and most of the biologically active food supplements worldwide
The fruits collected from the plantation had no seeds, and their mass was 3 times less, as compared to the fruits collected of the same cultivar plantations in the same province, but in a different pollination environment; and 1.5 times less as compared to the fruits produced in the continental climate of Novosibirsk West Siberia (Table)
Other L. caerulea cultivars on Gunhe plantation were absent
Summary
Plant material is the major source for producing more than one third of all medicines and most of the biologically active food supplements worldwide. Numerous studies both in Russia and abroad have focused to find and use new nonconventional plant sources of biologically active substances for pharmacology and functional nutrition. In the last decades many countries with temperate climate intensified their efforts to introduce blue honeysuckle into culture. Despite this great research interest to L. caerulea, the reproductive biology of the species has received little attention so far. The lack of knowledge about the details of pollination and fertilization leads to serious mistakes while implementing programs of broad scale species introduction into culture
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