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Sericulture
Authors: Dedos, Skarlatos
Subject: NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > BREEDING AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT > BREEDING
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > INSECTS AND ENTOMOLOGY > INSECT BIOLOGY
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > INSECTS AND ENTOMOLOGY > INSECT PATHOLOGY
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > INSECTS AND ENTOMOLOGY > INSECT PRODUCTS
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > INSECTS AND ENTOMOLOGY > SERICULTURE
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > PLANT SCIENCE AND PLANT PRODUCTS > HORTICULTURE > ARBORICULTURE
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING > BIOCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING / BIOTECHNOLOGY > AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING > TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING > FIBER TECHNOLOGY
Keywords:
Sericulture
Silk
SilkSilkworm
Silk fabrics
Silk reeling
Insect rearing
Mulberry
Arboriculture
Insect diseases
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Abstract:
The textbook "Sericulture" is an academic textbook for students in higher education. Through the 11 chapters of the textbook, and after an introduction to the historical past and the current status of sericulture in Greece and worldwide (Chapter 1), the reader learns about mulberry cultivation (Chapter 2) and the use of mulberry leaves for silkworm rearing. In the following chapters, the reader learns about silkworm anatomy (Chapter 3) and its developmental physiology and nutrition (Chapter 4), silkworm eggs’ management (Chapter 5), the rearing of silkworm larvae (Chapter 6), cocoon production (Chapter 7) and the diseases affecting this insect (Chapter 8). The silkworm is reared to harvest its cocoon, therefore, in the final chapters of the textbook, the reader learns about cocoon quality assessment and silk reeling (Chapter 9) and the emerging uses of silk (Chapter 10) as a biotechnological and environmentally friendly material since there is a clear shift in scientific literature towards the use of silk as an animal product in a variety of applications, beyond its use as a textile material. As silkworm rearing for silk production can no longer be considered a solely agricultural activity, it became necessary to draw on many, specialized and technical textbooks and sources in Japanese, English and Italian to compose the manuscript. A great deal of information was also drawn from extremely rare books that are no longer available in print. However, the reader is provided with several websites and links (Chapter 11) for access to audio-visual material and databases covering a wide range of information on sericulture.
Linguistic Editors: Kalliaras, Dimitrios
Graphic Editors: Moustani, Evangelia
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 18-04-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-5726-84-3
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-207
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9352
Bibliographic Reference: Dedos, S. (2023). Sericulture [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-207
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Introduction
2. The Mulberry Tree
3. The Silkworm
4. Developmental Biology of the Silkworm
5. Silkworm Egg Production and Management
6. Silkworm Rearing
7. Cocoon Production
8. Silkworm Diseases and Pests
9. Silk Production
10. Applications of Silk
11. Resources, Databases and Websites on Sericulture
Number of pages 336
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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