In vitro Efficacy of Antibacterial Proteins from Haemolymph of Silkworm Breeds against Bacterial Pathogens of Mulberry Silkworm, Bombyx mori L.

Construction, Characterization, and Biosensing Potential of an SOS Inducible mCherry Based Reporter Plasmid

“…Bacterial flacherie incur an estimated loss of 30-40% to cocoon crops (Anantha, 2011). In another study, the most prevalent silkworm disease was the flacherie (47.9 %) followed by grasserie (42.6 %), and then kenchu (9.5 %) (Manimegalai, 2003).…”

“…During last decade, bacterial flacherie has become a major threat to silkworm larvae during rearing (Stockland, 2017;Gani et al, 2017;Chairman et al, 2012;Saad et al, 2019;Gore et al, 2014), contributing about 70% loss to sericulture annually (Manimegalai, 2003). Bacterial flacherie incur an estimated loss of 30-40% to cocoon crops (Anantha, 2011).…”

Evaluation of Bed Disinfectants on Rearing Performance of Multivoltine Hybrid Mulberry Silkworm [NISTARI × (SK6×SK7)], in Kishanganj District, Bihar, India

“…untreated control (24.74 g). Manimegalai and Subramaniam [8] recorded 32.70 g larval weight and Sivaprakasam [9] reported maximum of 35 g larval weight of silkworm with Vijetha treatment. Anonymous [10] also reported maximum larval weight of 3.45 g in silkworm with use of bed disinfectant Vijetha as compared to other disinfectants.…”

“…The percent disease incidence was lowest (26.06%) in treatment T3 i.e., application of bed disinfectant Labex @ 5g/sq ft were applied half an hour before feeding followed by treatment T4 i.e., application of bed disinfectant Amla (27.18%), and highest disease incidence was observed in untreated control treatment (39.54%). Manimegalai and Subramaniam [8] recorded that dusting of turmeric powder + chalk powder and Vijetha resulted in 63.16 per cent decrease in grasserie infection. Samson [12] noticed that among bed disinfectant potential active against of the disease of silkworms are RKO, Vijetha, Resham Jyothi and Suraksha.…”