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MINERAL DEFICIENCY IN MULBERRY PLANTS, MORUS ALBA L. AND ITS EFFECT ON ECONOMIC CHARACTERS OF SILK WORM, BOMBYX MORI L

Volume : 75
Issue: Nov-dec
Pages: 384 - 390
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


The effect of mineral deficiency on mulberry ntant was studied under pot culture with Kanva-2 mulberry variety under different deficient nutrient conditions. The leaves were chemically analysed and discussed. To test the quality of leaves, a feeding experiment was conducted by feeding the hybrid worm. LX NB,D, from stage upto cocoon formation. The larval, cocoon and silk characters revealed that deficiency in N P and K affected the growth and nutrient content of mulberry leaves which in turn affected the growth and economic characters of silk worm. Among the three elements, p deficiency affected the cocoon characters and silk characters very badly, because deficiency in 'P affected the up- take of other elements in mulberry leaves.

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384 - 390
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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