eprintid: 10092057 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/09/20/57 datestamp: 2020-02-25 16:48:40 lastmod: 2020-02-25 16:48:40 status_changed: 2020-02-25 16:48:40 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Haidamus, SL creators_name: Affonso Lorenzon, MC creators_name: Koshiyama, AS creators_name: Tassinari, WDS title: Floral Diversity in Different Types of Honey ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 keywords: Plant diversity; pollen analysis; trophic niche; Ecology, conservation note: Copyright © 2018 by the authors. Submitted for possible open access publication under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY NC) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). abstract: Many different types of honey are available in the Brazilian market. They vary in color, flavor, smell, thereby increasing interest in honey characterization relating to botanical origin. A total of 155 honey samples belonging to Brazilian flora were examined on the pollen analysis; sampling is made in a span of one year. The preparation followed melisso palynological analysis based on the specific botanical variety. The pollen spectra revealed 60 pollen types belonging to 27 plant families and Myrtaceae, Fabaceae and Asteraceae were the dominant plant families. Few pollen types were found in most samples of honey. The families that showed major richness of pollen types were Fabaceae and Asteraceae. Only six floral sources of pollen plants and three floral sources of nectar plants appeared in the category of predominant pollen. The unifloral honeys were slightly more frequent than polyfloral, and wild floral species dominated most of the honey samples. These floral sources, even in minor parts in the honeys samples, are also part of the biological feature of theses honeys. The honeys from natural fields cannot be completely accounted by the term unifloral honeys. date: 2019-12-20 date_type: published publisher: INST TECNOLOGIA PARANA official_url: https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4324-2019180241 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1732807 doi: 10.1590/1678-4324-2019180241 lyricists_name: Koshiyama, Adriano lyricists_id: ASKOS88 actors_name: Koshiyama, Adriano actors_id: ASKOS88 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology volume: 62 article_number: e19180241 pages: 12 citation: Haidamus, SL; Affonso Lorenzon, MC; Koshiyama, AS; Tassinari, WDS; (2019) Floral Diversity in Different Types of Honey. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology , 62 , Article e19180241. 10.1590/1678-4324-2019180241 <https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4324-2019180241>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092057/1/1516-8913-babt-62-e19180241.pdf