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Induction of Non-Diapause Eggs and Manifestation of Quantitative Characters by Low Temperature Incubation of Eggs in the Silkworm, Bombyx mori L.

  • Singh, Ravindra (Sentral Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Srirampura, Mysore-570 008, India) ;
  • Jayaswal, K.P. (Sentral Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Srirampura, Mysore-570 008, India) ;
  • Rao, D.Raghavedra (Sentral Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Srirampura, Mysore-570 008, India) ;
  • Kariappa, B.K. (Sentral Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Srirampura, Mysore-570 008, India) ;
  • Premalatha, V. (Sentral Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Srirampura, Mysore-570 008, India)
  • Published : 2002.06.01
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Abstract

Induction of non-diapause eggs and manifestation of quantitative characters were studied in different seasons by low temperature incubation of eggs of a low yielding diapause with coloured cocoons silkworm breed, RDI of Bombyx mori. Hundred percent of nandiapause eggs were induced when the egg incubation was carried out at 15$^{\circ}C$ followed by incubation initially at $25^{\circ}C$ and then at $15^{\circ}C$. The diapause-nondia-pause relation was found to be reversible. Analysis of variance study demonstrated significant variation in all the quantitative characters whereas significant variation due to different incubation treatments was observed for larval span, fifth instar larval span, cocoon yield/10,000 larvae by weight, cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight, and cocoon shell ratio. study on hybrid vigour skewed significant heterosis over mid parent value for four economic characters viz., cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight, cocoon shell ratio and filament length in a Fl hybrid between RD1 with diapause eggs and Japanese type bivoltine $NB_{4} D_{2}$.

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