Sericulture is an important agro-based industry that provides employment and income to rural communities, particularly in regions like Assam where eri culture is widely practiced. The productivity and quality of silk largely depend on the nutritional quality of host plant leaves...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i43785
Sericulture is an important agro-based sector that creates the environmentally friendly silk material that sustains rural livelihoods. Recent developments in nanotechnology, especially the use of metal nano-particles, have shown great promise for enhancing sericulture in a number...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103109
The host plant under the genus Morus is highly considered for rearing of silkworm. Apart from the rearing, the mulberry plant can be utilized in many valuable purposes. Among the plant parts, the mulberry fruit is highly nutritious. Mulberry fruits can be made available in the fo...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i92943
Sericulture is a labour-intensive enterprise involving activities with dependency on manual labour. With the growing competition of Chinese silk which is of superior quality and lesser price, the indigenous silk is falling in demand in the domestic market. There is a felt need to...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i81200
The amount of silk produced by silkworms is influenced by several factors. The silkworm's nutrition is the most important element for good quality cocoon and silk production as it is dependent on the healthiness of the silkworm. Health, growth and resistance to biotic factors are...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i71107
Galls are unusual swellings or outgrowths of plant tissues that result from the activity of various organisms such as insects, mites, fungi, and bacteria. These structures arise due to chemical and mechanical stimuli that disrupt the plant’s hormonal balance, particularly involvi...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i82808
Eri silkworms (Samia ricini Boisd.) are phytophagous insect which feeds on a numbers of host plants. In the present study an effort was made to evaluate the economic characters like larval duration (days), larval weight (g), single cocoon weight (g), pupal weight (g), single shel...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i91393
Eri silkworm (Samia ricini Boisd.) is a commercially exploited domesticated silkworm. In the present study an effort was made to evaluate the rearing performances of five eco-races of eri silkworm such as Borduar, Titabar, Dhemaji, Diphu and Kokrajhar in the circumstances of Jorh...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i91328