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Title: | Performance of polyvoltine silkworm 'Bombyx mori' L. on different mulberry plant varieties | Contributor(s): | Bahar, Md Habibullah (author); Al Parvez, Mahmud (author); Rahman, Saidur (author); Islam, Rejaul (author) | Publication Date: | 2011 | DOI: | 10.1111/j.1748-5967.2011.00316.x | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8282 | Abstract: | Five cultivated mulberry plant varieties, BSRM-34, BSRM-56, BSRM-57, BSRM-58 and BSRM-59, were used to evaluate the effects of plant variety on larval and cocoon characteristics of mulberry silkworm 'Bombyx mori' L. Silkworm larvae undergo their entire larval periods on leaves of mulberry varieties. Different larval characteristics of larval weight, larval length and larval breadth were measured in different growth stages. After rearing, the fifth instar larvae were transferred into a mountage (Chandraki) structure for cocoon rearing for spinning and cocoon production. The cocoons were then harvested and different cocoon characteristics like cocoon weight, shell weight and shell percentage; and other characters like pupal weight and effective rate of rearing were measured. The results showed statistically significant differences among different varieties on larval and cocoon characteristics. The highest performance was observed by feeding the variety BSRM-34 in respect of the average weight of 10 mature larvae (40.5 g), single mature larval length (7.6 cm) and breadth (1.0 cm), single cocoon weight (1.4 g), shell weight (0.2 g) and pupal weight (1.2 g) while the average performance was recorded by feeding varieties BSRM-57 and BSRM-59. The poorest performance was showed by feeding the variety BSRM-56 (in case of larval characters) and BSRM-58 (in case of cocoon characteristics). These two varieties also showed the poorest performance for silk yield. Through comparing all the above parameters it was concluded that BSRM-34 is the best mulberry variety and it is recommended that Bangladeshi farmers adopt that variety for better yield of silk. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Entomological Research, 41(2), p. 46-52 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1748-5967 1738-2297 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 060808 Invertebrate Biology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 839999 Animal Production and Animal Primary Products not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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