POLLEN ANALYSIS OF HONEYS FROM THE SOUTH OF WESTERN SIBERIA

Abstract

From 2011 to 2015 were studied botanical origins of more than 200 samples of honey sold at fairs held in Novosibirsk. Honey for sale comes from Novosibirsk Region, Altai Territory, and Kemerovo Region, located in 9 soil-climatic zones. There was carried out the pollen analysis of honey that is quality studies based on a suggestion that the flowers of almost all plant species contain nectar with a touch of pollen. The botanical origins of honeys were established by pollens found in them; main bee plants of the south of Western Siberia were determined. There were identified 110 plant species belonging to 32 families, from which honey bees collected nectar. The dominant species were established as follows: common melilot for Novosibirsk Region, wild angelica for Kemerovo Region, common buckwheat for Altai Territory. Much of the plants (18.2%) in honeys are of the Asteraceae family, where the main proportion is wild species, except for sunflower. The plants of the Leguminosae family are 12.7 per cent, where 43 per cent of the total species number is fodder crops: melilot, Hungarian sainfoin, alfalfa, peas. Pollen grains of plants from the labiate and mustard families were 8.2 per cent each, 7.3 from the rose family, and 6.4 per cent from the parsley family. More than a half of the plant species established were families represented by one species. By representation of pollen grains were determined the dominant plant species critical to honey collection in the northern forest-steppe zone (areas near the Vasyugan Swamp), which is promising for honey production. These species are tillet from wild species, and common melilot and rape from introduced species.