Nutritional indices help to find out the quantity of leaf required to produce the silk. It also helps to study conversion rate of ingested food by the silkworm, so that we can analyze the distribution rate of mulberry intake in silkworm for various factors like growth rate, silk...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2025/v25i71370
The present study evaluates the screening of germplasm accession for breeding programme specific with mulberry fruit production. Mulberry plants are heterozygous species due to their wide range of character differences and capacity to adapt to cross-pollination in the absence of...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2024/v25i51150
The present study comprised of thirty- seven mulberry accessions. There are large differences were observed between the minimum and maximum range during rainy season and winter season. Phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV %) was found to be higher than the respective genotypi...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i5808
Evaluation of mulberry germplasm for growth and yield parameters was carried out during the rainy and winter seasons of 2019-2020 in the Department of Sericulture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru-65. The experimental material for the present study comprised o...
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Research Article10.9734/jalsi/2024/v27i3644
The major constraints in silk cocoon production are occurrence of the diseases in silkworm. Pebrine (protozoan disease) is a major disease of the silkworm, B. mori caused by microsporidian parasite, Nosema bombycis N. N. bombycis infection causing pebrine in silkworm is transmitt...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2025/v26i4693
The silkworm, Bombyx mori is a monophagous lepidopteran insect which derives required nutrients for its growth and development from mulberry leaf alone. Though nutrients present in the mulberry leaves satisfy nutritional needs of silkworm but the quantity of nutrients present var...
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Research Article10.9734/jalsi/2025/v28i4707
The major constraints in silk cocoon production are occurrence of the diseases in silkworm. Silkworm, Bombyx mori L. is poikilothermic hence, it is unable to regulate its body temperature. So, even minute changes in the rearing environment makes the silkworm susceptible to many v...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2025/v40i72278
Peddaramanna Gari Kalpana, Sushmitha C, Sapna J S, Lohithashwa K M & Chikkalingaiah·Advances in Research·2024
Information regarding the nature of gene action controlling the yield and yield contributing characters are essential for implementing good breeding program. Significant differences were observed among all parents for general combining ability was noticed. Analysis of general com...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2024/v25i51162
Information regarding the nature of gene action controlling the yield and yield contributing characters are essential for implementing good breeding program. With this background, a study was conducted to understand the gene action and variance of lines and testers for seedling t...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2024/v39i102141