The Study was carried out at Department of Sericulture, UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru under irrigated condition during the 2020-21 to study the effect of soil application liquid organic manures in mulberry and its effect on larval and cocoon traits of silkworm, V-1 mulberry variety plante...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242639
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and temperature are key components of ongoing climate change and are expected to exert significant influences on mulberry-based sericulture systems. Mulberry (Morus alba L.), a C₃ plant and the sole food source for the silkworm (Bom...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2026/v16i45342
Mulberry (Morus alba L.) is the sole food plant of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori L.), and the nutritional quality of its leaves directly determines larval growth, cocoon weight, shell ratio, and silk yield. Among the physiological factors governing leaf quality, carbon–n...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i43766
In an aeroponic system, nutrients are directly delivered to the plant roots, which results in the faster growth of crops. Furthermore, aeroponics has been extensively used as a research tool for many difficult-to-propagate plant species. The present investigation shows that the p...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i51770
Aim: The experiment was aimed at evaluating the effect of mulberry irrigated with treated sewage water on silkworms and cocoon production. Study Design: The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with six treatments and four replications. Place and D...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121517
The experiment was conducted to find out the impact of levels of drip irrigation and mulching on growth, yield and quality parameters of mulberry. Among different levels of irrigation 0.8 CPE recorded higher values for growth and leaf yield (47613 kg ha-1 year-1) parameters. Comp...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i1230549
Aim: Evaluation of raw and treated sewage water irrigation on yield and quality of V1 mulberry. Study design: The Experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with four replications and six treatments comprises of different proportions of raw sewage water,...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i1530508
Mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori nourishes its nutrition from its sole food plant Morus spp. Various biochemical techniques have facilitated the sericulture’s in identifying the most nutritive mulberry variety for obtaining eminent silk. A deficiency of certain nutrients or an imbal...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i101470
Silkworm, Bombyx mori L. being a poikilothermic insect is susceptible to both biotic and abiotic factors. The present study was carried to assess the performance of few thermotolerant bivoltine silkworm breeds under high temperature treatment (36 ± 1⁰ C for 6 hours) and Beauveria...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121576