Application of Biotechnology in Sericulture

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Possible applications of transgenic silkworm in sericulture/Satoshi Takeda. 2. Biomedical applicaitonof silk protein/Mi-Kyong Yoo and Chong-Su-Cho. 3. Seribiotechnology for economic empowerment and its sustainability/Venkatesh Kumar R., Ismath Afshan and Nandkishor More. 4. Recent biotechnological approaches for insect pest management/Prakash B.M. and Puttaraju H.P. 5. Biotechnological prospectives of Mulberry and silkworm/C. Ramesha, H. Lakshmi. S. Sugnana Kumari, C. Pushpalatha and C. Suresh Kumar. 6. Advances in Proteomic study of silkworm, Bombyx mori/Xin Du, Hosseini Moghaddam, S.H. Jun Li and Yuyil Chen. 7. Biotechnological approaches of sericulture/S.S. Dhami, Seema Chauhan. Amit Srivastava and Dhiraj Kumar. 8. Expression of human tissue factor pathway inhibitor by Baculovirus vector/Zhiyi Ye. 9. Optimization of the conditions for RAPD analysis of enterococci isolated from Bombyx mori/Yanwen Wang, V. Shyam Kumar, Xingmeng Lu, Zhimei Mu. GenXian Wang and Venkatesh Kumar R. 10. Action of low intensity laser radiation on quantitative indicators of silkworm (Bombyx mori L.)/S.V. Sukhanov, O.V. Galanova and O.A. Boyko. 11. Mutagenic effect of diethyl sulphate (DES) on the chromosomes of silkworm (Bombyx mori L)/G. Lokesh and S.R. Ananthanarayana. 12. Phylogeny of the genus Morus (Urticales: moraceae) inferred from is an trnL-F sequences/Zhao Weiguo, Pan Yile, Zhang Zhifang, Jia Shihai, Miao Xuexia and Huang Yongping. 13. Genetic diversity and phylogenetics relationships in the genus Morus (Urticales: Moraceae) in China as revealed by inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) analysis/Huang Yongping. 14. Proteomics study on midgut of color cocoon wilkworm (Bombyx mori)/Yuanxiang Jin, Mengkui Xu and Yuyin Chen. 15. Characterization of SSRNA virus isolated from wilkworm, Bombyx mori in Noerthern districts of Karnataka/V. Shyam Kumar, JIN Wei Huang Shaokang, Wang Fangwei And and Lu Xingmeng. 16. Cloning and sequence analysis of Manganese superoxide dismutase gene in the wilkworm, Bombyx mori L/W.F. Yue, Y.G. Miao, X.F. Wu, D-H Li, J-M Liu and G.L. Li. 17. Structure of Cephalic neuroendocrine system and immunocytochemical localization of Neurohormones FMRF Amide and Neuropeptide-Y (NP-Y) in the cerebral Neurosecretory cells in the tropical Tasar Silkworm. Antheraea mylitta (D.)/D.D. Barsagade, D.B. Tembhare and S.D. Rathi. 18. Studies on indexes of silk protein quality standard/Liangjun Zhu, Sijia Min, Haiping Zhang, Mengfang Du and Linfeng Wang. 19. Breeding of new tolerant to adverse rearing conditions silkworm, Bombyx mori L. Four way Uni Bivoltine commercial hybrids/P. Tzenov and D. Grekov. 20. Cytochemical evidence of anomalous dose-response of acid phosphatase activity in blood of fluorosis silkworm (Bombyx mori)/Yuyin Chen and Xin Du. 21. Biocontrol approaches in mulberry pest management/T.V. Sathe. 22. Biotechnological approaches for improvement of mulberry/B.N. Susheelemma. 23. DNA based biotechnological tools for marker assisted selection breeding/Rajendra Mundkur and E. Muniraju. Subject index.

Progress of biotechnology has influenced every single aspect of life science research. Application of Biotechnology in sericulture has become a buzzword in the sericulture field. This needs to be swiftly implemented in sericulture field. India being agro based country and sericulture due to it labor intensive nature, has been useful in providing employment to large rural masses. Though India is the second largest silk producer in the world, still Indian silk has not been able to meet the demands of international market, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Apart from this, silkworms in India have not been exploited to its full potential as ideal laboratory tool for biotechnological studies. Due to short life span ease in growing tropical climate, Biotechnology in Sericulture provides as in-depth review and collection of chapters on use of biotechnological tools in sericulture. It has 23 chapters written by prominent researchers in their chosen field of specialization with respect to biotechnological applications in sericulture. This book contains an in-depth information of techniques which can be employed for overall sericulture improvement.