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Mulberry silkworm –races and their characters – Mulberry plantation studies

Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations of an organism in a year. or Number of generations per year under natural environmental conditions. Based on voltinism, Bombyx mori is divided in to 3 types, namely   i) Univoltines, ii) Bivoltines  and iii. Multivoltines. i) UNIVOLTINE RACES:  They produce […]

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Sericulture – Mulberry cultivation- Mulberry Yield – Agricultural Study material

Mulberry cultivation Mulberry is a fast growing deciduous tree occurring in sub tropical and temperate climate.  Mulberry has characteristic long idioblast cells in the upper epidermis of leaves. Inflorescence is a catkin / spike with unisexual flowers. Hence it is a cross pollinated crop.  The important species of mulberry cultivated in India are , a) […]