| ISBN13: | 9783031438868 |
| ISBN10: | 3031438868 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 513 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 36 Illustrations, black & white; 76 Illustrations, color |
| 700 |
Stingless Bee Nest Cerumen and Propolis, Volume 2
EUR 235.39
Click here to subscribe.
Meliponini, the stingless bees of the tropics, process and store honey, pollen and plant resins to maintain their colonies. The chemical components of their nests are bioactive and believed to be therapeutic for a long list of maladies. However, only recently are tests and analyses being done with molecular and modern laboratory techniques, such as high throughput EDX, HPIC, HPLC, GC, NMR, PCR, and ultrastructural SEM; coupled with diverse detectors such as DAD, RI, MS, SCD.
This two-volume book is about the cerumen ?plant resins mixed with stingless bee wax? and propolis, which fortify the colony in ways that are beginning to be understood. It includes reviews and new research on diverse topics involving the chemistry and bioactivity of plant resins, cerumen, propolis, besides bee and microbe behavior and ecology. These analytic studies are presented along with stingless bee biodiversity, palynology, cultural knowledge, bee foraging behavior, resin flower evolution, ecology, and evolution of nest microbe mutualisms, social immunity, human health, the decisive role of microbiology investigation in moving forward, natural history of stingless bee colonies and nests, marketing, and bibliometrics for plant resin use by bees, propolis, and the Starmerella yeast.
Meliponini, the stingless bees of the tropics, process and store honey, pollen and plant resins to maintain their colonies. The chemical components of their nests are bioactive and believed to be therapeutic for a long list of maladies. However, only recently are tests and analyses being done with molecular and modern laboratory techniques, such as high throughput EDX, HPIC, HPLC, GC, NMR, PCR, and ultrastructural SEM; coupled with diverse detectors such as DAD, RI, MS, SCD.
This two-volume book is about the cerumen ?plant resins mixed with stingless bee wax? and propolis, which fortify the colony in ways that are beginning to be understood. It includes reviews and new research on diverse topics involving the chemistry and bioactivity of plant resins, cerumen, propolis, besides bee and microbe behavior and ecology. These analytic studies are presented along with stingless bee biodiversity, palynology, cultural knowledge, bee foraging behavior, resin flower evolution, ecology, and evolution of nest microbe mutualisms, social immunity, human health, the decisive role of microbiology investigation in moving forward, natural history of stingless bee colonies and nests, marketing, and bibliometrics for plant resin use by bees, propolis, and the Starmerella yeast.
Part. I. Chemical composition of cerumen, plant resins and propolis.- Chapter. 1. Propolis of Vietnamese stingless bees: Chemistry and plant origin .- Chapter. 2. Extraction of Tetragonula laeviceps cerumen, its total phenolic content and antioxidant activity.- Chapter. 3. Scaptotrigona mexicana propolis use in pasture silage: 1. Inhibition of pathogenic microbes, and 2. Feeding effect on growth of lambs.- Chapter. 4. Metabolites from microbial cell factories in stingless bee nests.- Chapter. 5. Bibliometric landscaping of the yeast Starmerella (Ascomycota), a genus proposed in 1998.- Chapter. 6. Pot-honey, cerumen and propolis of Axestotrigona ferruginea (Lepeletier, 1836) from Nigeria.- Chapter. 7. Volatile and sensory profile of cerumen, plant resin deposit, and propolis of a Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille, 1811) nest from Merida, Venezuela.- Part. II. Bioactivity of stingless bee cerumen, propolis and geopropolis.- Chapter. 8. Anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of propolis and geopropolis produced by stingless bees.- Chapter. 9. Cerumen and propolis of an Indian stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) Tetragonula iridipennis (Smith, 1854): Botanical origin and biological activities.- Chapter. 10. Botanical origin, chemical composition, and bioactive properties of propolis of stingless bees from Argentina.- Chapter. 11. Chemical composition and therapeutic properties of geopropolis and propolis of stingless bees from Brazil: A review.- Chapter. 12. Diversity and biological activities of propolis of some Indonesian stingless bees.- Chapter. 13. Stingless bee propolis in pharmacology: Some applied cellular and molecular mechanisms.- Part III. Cultural uses and commercial products.- Chapter. 14. From Extraction to Meliponiculture? An Ethnobiological Synthesis of a Long-Standing Process in Argentina.- Chapter. 15. Production, resiniferous plants, chemistry, and therapeutical uses of Tetragonula biroi (Friese, 1898) propolis from the Philippines.- Part. IV. Sustainable stingless bee keeping and conservation.- Chapter. 16. Large-scale breeding of stingless bees: A plea for sustainable stingless bee keeping and native bee-plant-forest conservation in the Chaco region of Argentina.- Chapter. 17. Sustainable stingless bee keeping and conservation of bee-plant resources in Costa Rica.- Part. V. Marketing and standards of cerumen and propolis.- Chapter. 18. Marketing and standards of cerumen, resins, geopropolis and propolis from Brazilian stingless bees.- Appendix. A. List of Bee Taxa.- Appendix. B. Ethnic Names of Stingless Bees.- Appendix. C. Taxonomic Index of Plant Families.- Appendix. D. List of Plant Taxa Used by Bees.- Appendix E. Common Names of Plants Used by Bees.- Appendix. F. Chemical Substances of Beeswax, Cerumen and Propolis.- Appendix.G. Chemical Classes of Beeswax, Cerumen and Propolis Compounds.- Appendix. H. Microorganisms Associated with Stingless Bees or Used to Test Antimicrobial Activity, or Producing Metabolites in Materials of the Nest.- Index.