Correlations between some economic larval traits of silkworm

Autor: Merve Gündüz, Ümran Şahan
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Agricultural Science and Technology. 11:8-12
ISSN: 1314-412X
1313-8820
DOI: 10.15547/10.15547/ast.2019.01.002
Popis: Silkworm, Bombyx mori L. is an economic insect that has great importance on cocoon and silk production. The development of sericultural industry depends on quality and yield in terms of qualitative and quantitative silkworm characters. Mature larval weight and silk gland mass are important factors in silkworm breeding. Silk gland mass has significant impact on the synthesis of silk protein in fifth larval stage. The investigation was conducted to evaluate the correlations between silk gland mass and mature larva weight of M and ZF (China), and N and ZB (Japan) lines and their hybrids MxN, ZFxZB. In this research, silkworm lines and hybrids were reared at the laboratory with 600 silkworm larvae for each four lines and their hybrids to determine these silkworm traits. Analysis of variance indicated that the mean values in Chinese lines and hybrids were found to be significant (P
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