Blueberry Pollination Project > Scientific Publications
  • Chabert, S. and Mallinger, R.E., 2025. A Self-sterility, self-incompatibility and xenia: A review of the mechanisms of cross-pollination benefits in animal-pollinated crops. Annals of Botany, 047. DOI.
  • Eeraerts, M., Kogan, C., Isaacs, R., Batáry, P., Blaauw, B. R., Bobiwash, K., Campbell, J. W., Cavigliasso, P., Daniels, J.C., Ellis, J.D., Gibbs, J., Goldstein, L., Mallinger, R.E., Melathopoulos, A., Miller, S.Z., Montero-Castaño, A., Naranjo, S.M., Nicholson, C.C.,  Perkins, J.A., Raine, N.E., Ricketts, T. H., Rogers, E., Ternest, J.J., Verheyen, K. and  DeVetter, L.W., 2025. Wild bees mediate fruit quality via seed set in highbush blueberry: A quantitative synthesis. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 394, p.109872. DOI.
  • Walters, J., Fisher, R., Sharkey, T.D., Isaacs, R. and Santiago, J.P., 2025. Extreme heat affects blueberry pollen nutrition, bee health, and plant reproduction. Scientific Reports, 15(1), p.6249. DOI.
  • Brouwer, K., Eeraerts, M., Rogers, E., Goldstein, L., Perkins, J.A., Milbrath, M.O., Melathopoulos, A., Meyer, J., Kogan, C., Isaacs, R. and DeVetter, L.W., 2025. Strategic honey bee hive placement improves honey bee visitation but not pollination in northern highbush blueberry. Journal of Economic Entomology, 118(1), pp.282-290. DOI.
  • Chabert, S., Eeraerts, M., DeVetter, L.W., Borghi, M. and Mallinger, R.E., 2024. Intraspecific crop diversity for enhanced crop pollination success. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 44(5), p.50. DOI.  
  • Eeraerts, M., Chabert, S., DeVetter, L.W., Batáry, P., Ternest, J.J., Verheyen, K., Bobiwash, K., Brouwer, K., García, D., de Groot, G.A. and Gibbs, J., 2024. Pollination deficits and their relation with insect pollinator visitation are cultivar-dependent in an entomophilous crop. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 369, p.109036. DOI.
  • Mallinger, R.E., Chabert, S., Naranjo, S.M. and Vo, V., 2024. Diversity and spatial arrangement of cultivars influences bee pollination and yields in southern highbush blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum x darrowii. Scientia Horticulturae, 335, p.113321. DOI.
  • Walters, J., Barlass, M., Fisher, R. and Isaacs, R., 2024. Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival. Proceedings B, 291(2025), p.20240714. DOI.
  • Eeraerts, M., DeVetter, L.W., Batáry, P., Ternest, J.J., Mallinger, R., Arrington, M., Benjamin, F.E., Blaauw, B.R., Campbell, J.W., Cavigliasso, P. and Daniels, J.C., 2023. Synthesis of highbush blueberry pollination research reveals region‐specific differences in the contributions of honeybees and wild bees. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60(12), pp.2528-2539. DOI.
  • Eeraerts, M., Rogers, E., Gillespie, B., Best, L., Smith, O.M. and DeVetter, L.W., 2023. Landscape-level honey bee hive density, instead of field-level hive density, enhances honey bee visitation in blueberry. Landscape Ecology, 38(2), pp.583-595. DOI.
  • Walters, J. and Isaacs, R., 2023. Pollen germination and tube growth in northern highbush blueberry are inhibited by extreme heat. HortScience, 58(6), pp.635-642. DOI.
  • DeVetter, L.W., Chabert, S., Milbrath, M.O., Mallinger, R.E., Walters, J., Isaacs, R., Galinato, S.P., Kogan, C., Brouwer, K., Melathopoulos, A. and Eeraerts, M., 2022. Toward evidence-based decision support systems to optimize pollination and yields in highbush blueberry. Front Sustain Food Syst 6: 1006201. DOI.
  • Walters, J., Zavalnitskaya, J., Isaacs, R. and Szendrei, Z., 2022. Heat of the moment: Extreme heat poses a risk to bee–plant interactions and crop yields. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 52, p.100927. DOI.