• Argentine stingless bee honey: bioactive compounds and health-promoting properties 

      Salomon, Virginia María; Brodkiewicz, Ivana Y.; Gennari, Gerardo Pablo; Maldonado, Luis Maria; Romero, Cintia M.; Vera, Nancy Roxana (Visagaa Publishing House, 2022-01)
      A pesar de todas las ventajas de consumir miel de melipónidos, la meliponicultura aún no ha sido suficientemente promovida en Argentina, y los estudios publicados sobre estas especies de abejas son muy escasos. La miel ...
    • Clasificación geográfica de propóleos de Tucumán utilizando parámetros físicoquímicos y análisis quimiométrico 

      Maldonado, Luis Maria; Borelli, Romina Soledad; Salomon, Virginia María; Alvarez, Alejandro Raul; Sayago, J.M.; Isla, María Inés; Borelli, Valeria Soledad (Gerencia de Comunicación e Imagen Institucional, DNA SICC, INTA, 2018-12)
      El propóleo es un producto que elaboran las abejas, mezclando sustancias resinosas que recolectan de ciertos vegetales con polen, impurezas y su cera. Es utilizado en alimentos, cosmética e higiene personal, medicina ...
    • Differentiation of argentine propolis from different species of bees and geographical origins by UV spectroscopy and chemometric analysis 

      Maldonado, Luis Maria; Marcinkevicius, Karenina; Borelli, Romina Soledad; Gennari, Gerardo Pablo; Salomon, Virginia María; Isla, María Inés; Vera, Nancy Roxana; Borelli, Valeria Soledad (Elsevier, 2018-09)
      Bees collect vegetal resins that they mix with their wax and mechanical impurities to elaborate propolis, whose chemical composition is complex and variable depending on botanical/geographical origin, type of bee, time of ...
    • Microbiological Diversity and Associated Enzymatic Activities in Honey and Pollen from Stingless Bees from Northern Argentina 

      Salomon, Virginia María; Hero, Johan Sebastian; Morales, Andrés Hernán; Pisa, José Horacio; Maldonado, Luis Maria; Vera, Nancy Roxana; Madrid, Rossana Elena; Romero, Cintia Mariana (MDPI, 2024-03)
      Honey and pollen from Tetragonisca fiebrigi and Scaptotrigona jujuyensis, stingless bees from northern Argentina, presented a particular microbiological profile and associated enzymatic activities. The cultured bacteria ...
    • The economic cost of losing native pollinator species for orchard production 

      Pérez-Méndez, Néstor; Andersson, Georg K.S.; Requier, Fabrice; Hipólito, Juliana; Aizen, Marcelo Adrian; Morales, Carolina Laura; García, Nancy; Gennari, Gerardo Pablo; Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro (Wiley, 2020)
      1. The alarming loss of pollinator diversity world-wide can reduce the productivity of pollinator-dependent crops, which could have economic impacts. However, it is unclear to what extent the loss of a key native pollinator ...