Honeybee Science and Apitherapy Future—A few Insights into Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers and Beekeepers

Revisiting the Impactful Honeybee Science for Researchers and Beekeepers: A Brief Guide on Challenges and Opportunities.

This comprehensive unique resource on honeybee science briefly reviews interesting topics including multilayered (multimodal) gold standard analytical techniques for honey analysis like NMR and isotopic techniques (isotopic fingerprinting), honeybee health and biology, royal jelly chemistry and glycosylation-phosphorylation interplay, honeybee breeding diversity, the social behavior of foragers and nurse bees, honeybee genomics and environmental variations, the therapeutic benefits and limitations of apitherapy for humans and animals, planetary health and environment concepts,  and the quality of bee products (e.g., propolis and royal jelly) and their decisive roles in disease management—as assessed by clinical and preclinical literature.

Key questions included in this book:

• Which basic and advanced analytical techniques can help to assess the quality of honeybee products, including honey, to assure the quality, and to develop analytical quality protocols and guidelines for honeybee products evaluation in region-specific and species-specific manners? How can these techniques be integrated to evaluate honeybee products in a region-specific and species-specific manner?
• How do honeybees contribute to improving planetary health and environment, particularly the wild honeybees (who nurture without human involvement or sugar-syrup)?

The descriptive ideas presented in this book aim to underpin the future development of digital tools—databases, compendia, and AI large language models (LLMs)—focused on honeybee health, biology, planetary health improvement parameters, and applications and analysis of bee products. The development of digital prototypes and tools will help scientists, researchers, students, and honeybee keepers to attain true quality measures based on research-driven guidelines and descriptive ideas.

A unique collection of gear and directions for honeybee keepers, animal farmers, food science professionals (including nutritionists, dieticians, and halal food professionals), apitherapists, medical herbalists, students, and researchers.

Publisher - Dr. Muhammad Ramzan Manwar

Language - English

Hardback

Contributors

Author

Dr. Muhammad Ramzan Manwar

Published Date - May 20 2024

ISBN - 9781738513451

Dimensions - 25.4 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm

Page Count - 147