Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2013

Protein Profiles in the Silkworm, Bombyx Mori (L) on Exposure to Trace Element and Nutrients

K. Lakshmi Devi, K. Yellamma

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The present study has been demonstrated severe perturbations in protein profiles of the silkworm Bombyx mori, in different tissues such as Silk Gland, Haemolymph, Fat body and Muscle, when fed on mulberry leaves fortified with selected trace element, Zinc, vitamin, Pyridoxine and hormone, Methoprene. The experimental worms were divided in to four groups and fed with mulberry leaves soaked in the selected compounds i.e. Zinc chloride, Pyridoxine, Methoprene and with Mixed dose (Zn+B6+H). The Control group of silkworm larvae was fed with normal mulberry leaves. All groups of silkworm larvae were fed four times in a day throughout the 5th instar larval period. Both Control and Experimental silkworm larvae were weighed daily and sacrificed on selected days viz. 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th day. However protein utilization, especially for the silk fiber as well as the spinning activity probably remains more or less same at the selected dose of trace element, focusing on the possibility of variations in protein synthesis. The findings of the present study finally suggest that the Mixed dose induced active turnover of all profiles of protein metabolic events in the posterior silk gland, creating the conditions that are highly congenial for growth and silk production.

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K. Lakshmi Devi, K. Yellamma / Protein Profiles in the Silkworm, Bombyx Mori (L) on Exposure to Trace Element and Nutrients / Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.3, Issue.10 October 2013

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