Stingless Bee Nest Cerumen and Propolis, Volume 2 / edited by Patricia Vit, Vassya Bankova, Milena Popova, David W Roubik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vit, Patricia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Botany.

Agriculture.

Conservation biology.

Food science.

Plant Science.

Conservation Biology.

Food Science.

Local Subjects:

Ecology.

Plant Science.

Agriculture.

Conservation Biology.

Food Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783031438875

3031438876