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Journal articles on the topic "Mulberry Silk Production"
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Barcelos, Silvia Mara Bortoloto Damasceno, Rodrigo Salvador, Maria da Graça Guedes, and Antonio Carlos de Francisco. "Opportunities for Improving the Environmental Profile of Silk Cocoon Production under Brazilian Conditions." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 16, 2020): 3214. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083214.
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Brazilian silk production is amongst the five largest in the world. Nonetheless, there is no life cycle assessment study on silk cocoon production and its upstream processes, pertaining to the mulberry production (fundamental upstream process for silk production), in the existing literature. The objective of this study was to identify opportunities to improve the environmental profile of mulberry and silk cocoon production under Brazilian conditions. To that end, a life cycle assessment was conducted for the core processes of mulberry and silk cocoon production and upstream processes of raw material production, using the ReCiPe method for life cycle impact assessment using nine impact categories. Overall, the mulberry production showed greater impacts than the cocoon production for the impact categories analyzed. A few opportunities for improving the environmental profile of mulberry and silk cocoon production under Brazilian conditions included replacing the Kraft paper used to cover the rearing beds, replacing the standard tractor used to fetch mulberry leaves, replacing light bulbs, conducting a more sustainable mulberry and cocoon production, and setting a reverse logistics system for plastic and paper packaging waste. Nevertheless, many of these measures are long-term strategies. Besides, many of them need further economic feasibility assessment.
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Maimoona Kanwal, Waqar Younus, and Mubashar Hussain. "An Insight into Genomics of Mulberry Silkworm." Scientific Inquiry and Review 3, no. 2 (June 5, 2019): 08–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/sir.32.02.
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The purpose of this article is to review the genetic basis of mulberry silkworm to understand the mystery of silk production and the silkworm’s role as a model organism. Data regarding mulberry silkworm’s genetic diversity, genetic bases of silk production, gene mapping and chromosomal properties was reviewed. Findings illustrated that genetic variability exists among mulberry silkworms of different geographical regions. Hence, it acts as an indicator of the genetic bases of silk production since it is higher in males, although sex is primarily determined by females. Studies have revealed that chromosomes in mulberry silkworm are holocentric and gene mapping provides an insight into the accurate location of silk genes on chromosomes. It is concluded that the genetic study of silkworm is useful due to its commercial and economic significance and it is the crucial need of sericulture industry to enhance its output by collecting information about superior silkworm breeds. Hence, further research should be carried out to explore the hidden facts about mulberry silkworm.
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Manjunatha, G. R., P. A. Sangannavar, G. R. Halagundegowda, A. S. Nazeer, S. M. Moorthy, and V. Sivaprasad. "Comparative economics of vanya with mulberry cocoon production in India." Journal of Environmental Biology 44, no. 3(SI) (June 3, 2023): 519–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.22438/jeb/44/3(si)/jeb-01.
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Aim: To compare the remunerativeness of Mulberry, Tasar, Eri and Muga based sericulture enterprises. Methodology: An empirical analysis was undertaken to compare the economics of mulberry and non-mulberry cocoon production in India, utilizing the available data from Central Silk Board using descriptive statistics and suitable ratios. Results: The study indicated that returns per rupee of investment in Mulberry (1.66), Tasar (1.60), Eri (1.88) and Muga (2.07) were higher compared to agriculture crop enterprises (National Silk Policy-2020), besides being of short duration with frequent assured income at least for three to six times in a year. Interpretation: The Mulberry and Eri silkworm cocoon production is highly remunerative enterprise and attracts the youths, because of its domesticated nature, short duration and women friendly enterprise. Key words: Cocoon production, Economics, Eco-friendly, Mulberry, Sericulture enterprises, Vanya
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Madhu, D. M., Shaik Mohammad Irfan, Satya Prakash, D. K. Sinha, and K. M. Singh. "Value Chain Analysis of Cocoons, Constraints faced by women in Production and Marketing of Mulberry Silk in Chikkaballapur District of Karnataka, India." Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology 41, no. 5 (April 10, 2023): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ajaees/2023/v41i51898.
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The present study was carried out in Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka to assess the marketing costs, value chain of cocoons and constraints faced by women in production and marketing of mulberry silk in the year 2021. The study adopted multistage random sampling for the selection of farmers and intermediaries, 90 and 50 respectively. The marketing costs are calculated for one quintal of cocoons among the stratified farmers. The marketing cost incurred was estimated to be Rs 980.78, amongst which the largest share was observed higher for marketing fee accounted 40.89 per cent, followed by packing material accounting 20.72 per cent. The producer’s share in consumer’s rupee was accounted to 34.28 per cent. The process of cocoons, the marketing costs and margins shown that the silk weavers purchased coloured weft from the silk twisters which accounts highest share of 42 per cent of the total cost of consumer’s price. The major constraints faced by women in mulberry cultivation was water scarcity etc. Constraints encountered in cocoon production was mainly pest and disease of mulberry silkworms. Constraints encountered in marketing of mulberry silk cocoons majorly was high price fluctuations in the market followed by the absence of quality based pricing. The constraints faced by reelers in mulberry silk production are high investment cost and high price fluctuations was observed in marketing of silk.
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Chatterjee, Abhirupa, and Sangyu Yaden. "Role of Silk as a Remunerative Cash Crop of Murshidabad, West Bengal." International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 11, no. 8 (August 10, 2022): 290–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2022.1108.031.
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Silk, the "Queen of Textiles" is an inseparable part of Indian culture and tradition over thousands of year. The internal high market demand makes India, the largest silk consuming country as no ritual is completed here without it, and the second largest silk producing country of the world with more than 18% to the world’s silk production. Being an agro-based industry, this sector includes both agricultural and industrial aspects and thus refers to the work started from mulberry cultivation, silk worm rearing, and obtaining silk up to the making of finished silk product. Indian climate is appropriate for the production of all the varieties of silk called Mulberry, Tasar, Muga and Eri and among these Mulberry silk is the most renowned and popular form of silk. This industry helps in shaping the economic destiny of the rural people especially for the overpopulated rural economy based country like India as it mainly depends on human power and helps in poverty alleviation whereas, being retreated from the developed countries because of the increasing labour cost. It is appropriate for both marginal and small scale land holders because of its low investment and high assured return at regular interval. In West Bengal, Silk industry plays a significant economic role by providing employment over 1.2lakhs rural families round the year (Seri States Profile, 2019). The district Murshidabad of West Bengal is well equipped in both the production and weaving of mulberry silk and so as a matter of fact the silk industry of the state mainly goes by the name of ‘Murshidabad Silk’ as the silk weaving belts are confined around this district. This paper intends to analyse the importance of silk as a remunerative cash crop of Murshidabad.
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Ram Sudha S., Vasanthi K., S. Arumugavel. "Growth And Dietary Efficiency of Artificial Nutrients Fortification of Bombyx Mori (L)." Proceeding International Conference on Science and Engineering 11, no. 1 (February 18, 2023): 443–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.52783/cienceng.v11i1.149.
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Sericulture has been serving the humanity by providing natural animal silk for several centuries. The quality as well as the quantity of mulberry leaves along with environmental factors have a direct influence on the production of raw silk spun by Bombyx mori L. Larvae before pupation in the form of cocoons. Study on the nutritional aspect of the silkworm is an essential prerequisite for its proper commercial exploitation. Silkworm nutrition is the sole factor which has almost individually augmented the quality and quantity of the silkworm cocoon production and productivity. Despite the balancing of the silkworm nutrients by the mulberry leaf, the quantity available is not sufficient for the larval growth owing to variation in mulberry plant and in its management. This created a requirement for the dietary fortification with good quality mulberry leaves in optimum quantity for successful cocoon production. In this study, mulberry leaves were fortified with Honey, Glucose, B- complex, Lemon and Calciferol and the growth and dietary efficiency of the larvae fed with the fortified diet were evaluated. The results indicated improvement in terms of growth as well as cocoon parameters. Our studies support the concept of dietary fortification the Mulberry leaves fed to silkworm for netter production of silk.
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Fambayun, R. A., R. Agustarini, and L. Andadari. "Cultivation and Breeding Techniques for Increase Silk Productivity in Indonesia." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 995, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 012055. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/995/1/012055.
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Abstract Silk is one of the textile products derived from plant fibres and is a sericulture product. Sericulture activities have a positive impact on the economy and society, as well as environmental sustainability. The many benefits of sericulture have made the Ministry of Environment and Forestry define silk as one of the potential non-timber forest products to be developed. However, there are many obstacles in developing sericulture, especially upstream (moriculture and silkworm rearing), namely low productivity. Forestry Research and Development Center is one of the stakeholders in silk development. This paper reviews the activities carried out by FRDC related to natural silk, both the development of mulberry and silkworms. The three activities carried out include research on cultivation techniques, conservation and breeding of mulberry plants and silkworms. Increased productivity is obtained by crossing or hybridization to get superior seeds. The superior products produced are Suli 01 mulberry seeds, PS 01 silkworm hybrids, and sericulture development techniques with high productivity. The Suli 01 mulberry hybrid had 30% more leaf production than conventional mulberry (M. cathayana), and the PS 01 silkworm hybrid increased cocoon production per box by 40% compared to the commonly used C301 silkworm.
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Ghosh, Ashmita, Debnirmalya Gangopadhyay, and Tanmay Chowdhury. "Economical and Environmental Importance of Mulberry: A Review." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT 3, no. 02 (July 31, 2017): 51–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18811/ijpen.v3i02.10437.
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Mulberry is a very hardy and fast growing perennial plant belonging to the genus Morus of the family Moraceae. The leaf of mulberry is solely used for feeding and rearing of the silkworm, Bombyx mori for the production of silk yarn. It is estimated that mulberry silk contributes around 90 % of the total global raw silk production and it is a very attractive economic activities mostly to the rural people. In addition to the utilization of mulberry leaves as silkworm feed, it is being used for many other purposes also. For example, the mulberry fruit due to its high nutritive value and delicious taste is getting importance as valuable foodstuff. The mulberry bark and wood are also useful for manufacturing of paper and sports goods items. Recently, evaluation of several pharmacological compounds of medicinal importance present in mulberry plant opens up new avenues of research in the medical science. This paper reviews the economical as well as environmental importance of mulberry taking into account several aspects of its role as animal feed, foodstuff, phytomedicine and remediation of polluted soils and atmosphere etc. Finally, an outline of environmental friendly ecological model combining sericulture with animal husbandry recycling the waste resources has been proposed from economic point of view.
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Zanier, Claudio. "Silk Cultivatiom in Italy." Journal of Medieval Worlds 1, no. 4 (2019): 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jmw.2019.1.4.41.
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Silk cultivation in Italy started in the eleventh century CE. Initially, silkworms were cultivated using only indigenous black mulberry trees. For several centuries following, manufacturers in Italian towns manufactured luxury silk fabrics utilizing only imported foreign silk threads. In the fifteenth century, however, the practice of cultivating non-native white mulberry trees made its way from China to Italy. Due to the better quality of their leaves, this facilitated the production of domestic Italian silk threads for use in the manufacture of luxury products. Rural silk cultivation then expanded sharply.
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Bu, Chunlan, Rui Zheng, Gaiqun Huang, Jianmei Wu, Gang Liu, Marion L. Donald, Tingfa Dong, and Xiao Xu. "The differences in cocoon and silk qualities among sex-related mulberry and silkworm feeding groups." PLOS ONE 17, no. 6 (June 30, 2022): e0270021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270021.
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Sexual dimorphism is seen in many dioecious plant and animal species, which may influence their trophic interactions. The differences in trophic interactions derived from sexual dimorphism in plants may influence herbivorous performance and population dynamics. Both silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) and mulberry (Morus alba L.) usually exhibit sexual dimorphism. However, few studies have been conducted on the effect of sex-related silkworm and mulberry pairings on cocoon and silk qualities, which are crucial in sericulture. Here, we compared the differences in cocoon and silk qualities under four feeding combinations (FS-FL: female silkworm fed with leaves from female mulberry trees; MS-FL: male silkworm fed with leaves from female mulberry trees; FS-ML: female silkworm fed with leaves from male mulberry trees; MS-ML: male silkworm fed with leaves from male mulberry trees). The results showed that silkworms exhibited male-biased herbivory with more male mulberry leaves digested. The FS-ML group had higher silk weight and silk ratio of fresh cocoons than the FS-FL group, and the MS-ML group had lower coarse points than the MS-FL group. Compared with groups FS-ML and FS-FL, both MS-FL and MS-ML had smaller cocoons with longer silk lengths and a higher silk ratio of the fresh cocoons. In addition, the Entropy Weight-TOPSIS method showed the cocoon quality rank as FS-ML > FS-FL > MS-FL > MS-ML, whereas silk quality rank was MS-ML > FS-FL > FS-ML > MS-FL. These results indicate that the quality of cocoon and silk is related to the interaction of silkworm and mulberry at the sex level. Furthermore, female silkworms fed with female and male tree leaves have a higher total yield in cocoon production, while male silkworms fed with male tree leaves produced higher silk quality.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mulberry Silk Production"
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Das, Dipayan. "Application of nano silver and silver ions in preservation of mulberry leaves and their utilization in silkworm rearing system." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2021. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4753.
Full textBooks on the topic "Mulberry Silk Production"
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Clarke, John Of Philadelphia. Treatise on the Mulberry Tree and Silkworm. and on the Production and Manufacture of Silk. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Treatise on the Mulberry Tree and Silkworm. and on the Production and Manufacture of Silk. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.
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Kalayci, Ece, Arzu Yavas, and Ozan Avinc. "Natural Dyeing of PA 6, PTT, PBT, PLA, Silk, and Soybean Textile Fibers with Black Mulberry Fruit Extract by Conventional and Microwave Dyeing Techniques." In Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry, 329–52. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47471-2_14.
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Hancock, James F. "The Spanish build their empire." In Spices, scents and silk: catalysts of world trade, 235–46. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789249743.0018.
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Abstract The chapter summarizes the Spanish conquests and navigation. It also provides a brief summary of how Ferdinand Magellan found another route to the Pacific and the Moluccas, which led to the signing of Treaty of Tordesillas. This divided any newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal along a Meridian west of the Cape Verde Islands, but no line of demarcation had been set on the other side of the world. This meant that both countries could lay claim to the Spice Islands, as long as Portugal travelled there from the east and Spain from the west. After Magellan's conquest, the Spanish explore the Pacific, which gave them control over the Pacific countries including the Philippines. The chapter also discusses how the charting of 'Urdaneta's Route' made possible a trans-Pacific galleon trade and the profitable colonization of the Philippines and other Latin American countries. Soon ships were travelling regularly from Manila to New Spain. A complex trade network evolved that was truly global in nature. Into Manila would flow spices from the Moluccas and silk and porcelain from China. These would be shipped across the Pacific by the Spanish to Acapulco, a journey of four to six months. The silver came from Potosí, Bolivia where hundreds of thousands of enslaved Incan lives were sacrificed by the Spanish to extract that silver from the bowels of the earth. The mines became the centre of Spanish wealth and were the reason Spain remained powerful during the colonial period. From 1556 to 1783, they extracted some 45,000 tons of silver from these mines. Aside from these, is the silk production as New Spain had a native mulberry tree called the Morera criolla. The Spanish finished their conquest by 1521 and by 1523, the first silkworm eggs had been exported to Mexico. Finally, the chapter closes how England, by means of American privateers, fought off Portugal and Spain.
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Onaga, Lisa. "Silk." In The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History, 424–42. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190924164.013.23.
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Abstract Histories of silk cultivation can project impressions that regard failures as anomalous, but particular failings can have historical significance nonetheless. Individual histories of sericulture of different eras and across the globe alone cannot explain the conditions of failure in sericulture. This essay shows how repeated human efforts to grow silk are important aspects of the history of sericulture. Sericulture situated in nineteenth- and twentieth-century California—an area with a history famed for agricultural production but not for silk—provides a geographic middle ground where silkworms, mulberry, and expertise from East Asia and Europe came together. Moreover, the histories of plants and insects in the seri-histories of North, South, and Meso-American gather to a point in California to illuminate the integrality of diverse roles of women that factored into the business and technics of making silk and caring for the larvae of the silk moth (including the boiling of cocoons and reeling their silk filaments together). Across racial lines, women’s practical attempts at and decisions about silk cultivation provides a useful counterbalance to scholarly explorations of the histories of establishing sericulture nested within the discourse of internationalization. By examining the challenges and failures of silk production critically, a better understanding of the common threads that knit these disparate stories together comes into view. These sericultural initiatives of the New World ultimately contextualize the typicality of non-continuity in the making of silk threads.
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Acharya, Ritwik, Trisha Bagchi, and Debnirmalya Gangopadhyay. "Mulberry as a Valuable Resource for Food and Pharmaceutical Industries: A Review." In Medicinal Plants [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104631.
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Mulberry is a fast growing hardy perennial woody plant belonging to the genus Morus of the family Moraceae. There are more than 60 species of the genus Morus found in the subtropical, tropical and temperate regions of Asia, Africa and North America. Cultivation of mulberry is highly economical since the leaf produced by mulberry is extensively used for feeding the silkworm, Bombyx mori for silk production. Mulberry possessing valuable nutritional and phytochemical constituents can serve as highly nutritious food for human with high therapeutic values. Mulberry fruit is rich in carbohydrate, protein and dietary fiber and an important foodstuff for the preparation of several value added items like jams, jellies, wines and syrups. Mulberry leaf has been identified as an excellent resource for the development of protein rich food products with natural antioxidant. Extracts of leaf, stem, twig, root and bark of mulberry are reported to have potential antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-hyperglycaemic, anticancer and anti-tyrosinase inhibition activity. Though mulberry is grown commercially in many countries for sericulture, its potential to be utilized as food for human consumption is not well recognized. The paper reviews the importance of mulberry as a valuable resource for various food, cosmetic, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
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Barros, Regina Cohen, Gabrielle Evangelista da Silva, Karine Bueno Vargas, Andrea Carmo Sampaio, Maria Cristina Lorenzon, and Maria Veronica Leite Pereira Moura. "O Jardim das Amoreiras e o resgate da memoria de Seropédica/RJ no fio da seda: um projeto de extensão no Jardim Botânico da UFRRJ." In The Overarching Issues Of The European Space-From Sustainable Development to Sustainability, 152–62. Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/978-989-9082-08-3/overa10.
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The importance of recovering the memory of places and their legacies is contributing to the (re)signification of society's identity and its valuation. The “Mulberry Garden” is an extension project developed with the objective of recovering a little part of the history of the Seropédica municipality, whose name derives from sericulture (the cultivation of the silkworm), an activity developed there in the middle of the 19th century. The arboretum, planted in the Botanical Garden located on the campus of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, intends to be a space to rescue a bit of local history and explain what sericulture is, through a series of objects and actions, as an educational guided trail, open to the community. The project is developed in partnership between the Departments of Geography, Animal Production and Botany and UFRRJ Technical School. The UFRRJ's Botanical Garden was chosen because it is a unit that performs research, teaching, extension, conservation, and enhancement activities for botanical species; with multi and interdisciplinary perspectives, helping to rescue the memory of the municipality through planting mulberry trees (Morus alba L., Moraceae), an exotic species whose leaves are the food of the silkworm (Bombyx mori L., 1758; Lepidoptera: Bombycidae). The “Mulberries Garden” occupies an area of 70m2, consisting of three alleys of mulberry trees delimited by a lawn whose boundaries reproduce, in scale, the territoriality of Seropédica. In addition, the Project aims to develop teaching materials and promote activities with schools, the local community, and the university community. Through visitation, observation and experimentation of materials, a bit of the city's history is recovered, delving into its past (in geological, biological, and historical times) until the present day. In another way, the creation of the “silkworm” and the production of silk thread are also rescued and publicized, as sustainable activities that can unfold into other ventures.
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McCracken, Saskia. "Breaking the Peace." In Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace, 129–42. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979374.003.0009.
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This chapter examines Woolf’s feminist, pacifist, and anti-fascist engagement with Darwin’s work on dictators through the trope of the worm, suggesting how we might we read both Woolf and Darwin through the lens of animal studies. McCracken reads Woolf’s ‘creature Dictator’ and related worm imagery back through Charles Darwin’s writings both on worms and on nineteenth-century Argentinian Dictator General Juan Manuel de Rosas, whom he met during his voyage on the HMS Beagle. According to Darwin, Rosas led a ‘war of extermination’ against indigenous peoples, yet ‘disapproved of peace having been broken’. This chapter argues that Woolf re-appropriates the Social Darwinist rhetoric of the 1930s, and twists animal imagery to feminist advantage. The chapter also analyses Woolf’s silkworm and related mulberry tree imagery in Three Guineas through Darwin’s interest in breeding silkworms. Placing this imagery in the context of 1930s social Darwinist silk production discourse under the Third Reich, McCracken, argues that, contrary to critics who read her silkworm as symbolic of female creativity, Woolf’s writing intimately connects Darwinian silkworm breeding imagery and fascist politics.
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Atanasova Staykova, Teodora, and Panomir Ivanov Tzenov. "Population genetic studies of silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) and phylogenetic relationships." In Lepidoptera - Recent Advancements [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1002229.
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The study aimed to evaluate the degree of genetic variability and phylogenetic relationships between 13 breeds of mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) from genetic resources of Bulgaria through isozyme polymorphism. PAGE was used. Among nine studied isoenzyme loci, by eight loci (Bes A, Bes B, Bes D, Bes E, Pgm A, Mdh A, Bph, and Alp A) we found intra-breed and inter-breed polymorphism. At the Hk locus, we found inter-breed polymorphism only. The number of alleles per polymorphic locus ranged from one to two. The degree of polymorphism ranged from 0% to 77.80%. Low levels of observed heterozygosity in comparison with the expected one have been calculated in all of breeds. The combined FIS value over all polymorphic loci was 0.3205, which reflects a substantial deficit of heterozygotes. The value of FST showed that 49.21% of the overall genetic diversity observed was among breeds. The dendrogram constructed manifested that the two breeds of Japanese origin (Daizo and Japanese 106) were genetically most distant from other breeds. The data for isoenzyme polymorphism and genetic structure of the tested breeds can be used for genetic improvement and to develop new hybrids for silk production.
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Damodaran, A. "India’s Rurality and Its Different Faces." In India, Climate Change, and The Global Commons, 65—C5P105. 2nd ed. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192899828.003.0005.
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Abstract This chapter discusses the phenomena of rurality in India. Embedded in ‘rurality’ are the concepts of diversity and the principle of inclusive development. The chapter takes up three cases of how rurality has worked in India. These include the vignettes from the State of Rajasthan, the instance of Darjeeling Tea, and the dynamics of mulberry silk production. It is stated that the prosperous fringe of rural India seeks greater liberalization of world trade in agricultural goods, while the not-so-prosperous fringe seeks greater protectionism from imports. However, diversification is not the same as diversity. The richness of diversity comes in its rich socio-economic and cultural essence. In the case of Rajasthan, despite the best efforts of the administration at diversifying the income base of the rural population, the issue of redistribution of benefits of growth has not been addressed. Further, environmental degradation has depleted the supply of public goods in the state. Externally aided projects have also suffered from the absence of bottom-up, de-bureaucratized approaches that harp on participative and inclusive sustainable development. It is argued that technology platforms enable a small farmer or a member of a tribal community to effectively sustain their livelihoods and thereby capture the quintessence of rurality. Such measures would immensely contribute to India’s quest for conserving the global commons.
Conference papers on the topic "Mulberry Silk Production"
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Takai, Hiroki. "Silk gland secretion ofBombyx mori larvae inhibits the production of herbivory-induced volatiles in mulberry leaves." In 2016 International Congress of Entomology. Entomological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/ice.2016.114092.
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