Sericulture in India (4 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: General Sericulture, Sericulture Extension, Organization and Management: Preface. 1. History of sericulture/Hari Om Agrawal and M.K. Seth. 2. Organizational set up of central silk board/M.K. Seth and Hari Om Agrawal. 3. Agroforestry sloping agriculture land technology in sericulture/Atul. 4. Sericulture technology in India/N. Sivaprakasam. 5. Non-mulberrry sericulture in India/R.K. Goel. 6. Status and future planning of sericulture in Himachal Pradesh/A.K. Kulshreshtha. 7. History of non-mulberry sericulture in Himachal Pradesh/O.S. Sharma. 8. A brief note on the activities of the office of the silk seed production officer, Nadaun, District Hamirpur and office of the sericulture officer, Dehra, district Kangra, Himachal Pradesh/O.S. Sharma. 9. Oak tasar culture in Himachal Pradesh/Raja Ram and B.C. Pandey. 10. Sericulture in sustainable mountain development: scientific perspectives/V.K. Mattu. 11. Sericulture in India-history and problems/Sunil Gupta. 12. Sericulture in Himachal Pradesh: scope and strategies for development/V.K. Mattu, N. Sharma and S. Sharma. 13. Soil classification/Bhupinder Singh Marh. 14. Soil and soil forming processes/Bhupinder Singh Marh. 15. Sericulture in Tamil Nadu/V. Thiagarajan. 16. The status and prospect of tasar culture in Mayurbhanj district of Orissa/C.S. Dash and B.K. Dikshit. 17. Moriculture in Orissa/A.K. Dubey and B.K. Dikshit. 18. Silk marketing in Orissa: A saga of prosperity/B.C. Gochhait and B.K. Dikshit. 19. Vocationalisation of sericulture its scope and utility in economics and employment/Susanta Chattopadhyay. 20. Some thoughts on the future problems in the mulberry sericulture in India/Binay Kumar Goswami.

Vol. II: Biology of Silkworm and Silkworm Rearing Technology, Biology of Mulberry, Diseases, Pests and Predators of Silkworm and their Management, Diseases, Pests and Predators of Mulberry and their Management. II. Biology of Silkworm and Silkworm Rearing Technology: 1. Systematic status of silkworms/S.S. Misra. 2. The complete systematic positions alongwith their identifying diagnostic characters at each and every step of the mulberry and non-mulberry silkmoths of the world/Binay Kumar Goswami. 3. Races of silkworms and cultivation of their food plants with special reference to mulberry/S.S. Misra. 4. The silk glands/S.S. Kurabar. 5. Silk glands and the biosynthesis of silk by silkworms/Bala G. Unni, Priyanka Das and Anil C. Ghosh. 6. Moulting in insects with special reference to silkworm larva/C.B. Kambi. 7. Introduction of autumn rearing of silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) in temperate regions. I. Technical feasibility/Shamim Baksh, S.M. Quadir, M.A. Khan, A.R. Trag and Rajinder Kaur. 8. Appropriate silkworm rearing technology/Raja Ram. III. Biology of Mulberry: 1. Propagation of mulberry/B.B. Bindroo and Anil Dhar. 2. Diurnal rhythm in the contents of ascorbic acid and carbohydrate fractions in the leaves of mulberry/S.K. Mazumdar, R.N. Datta, R. Kar and B.K. Gupta. 3. Zero cultivation a panacea for sustainable sericulture/B.B. Mathad. 4. How to establish a mulberry garden/R. Parimala. 5. Management for quality leaf production in mulberry/R.K. Ogra. 6. Food plants of mulberry silkworm with particular reference to the morphology and wood anatomy of Morus serrata Roxb/M.K. Seth and Chaman Lal. IV. Diseases, Pests and Predators of Silkworm and their Management: 1. Entomological problems of mulberry silkworm and their management/D. Rajagopal and B.C. Hanumanthaswamy. 2. Diseases, parasites and predators of silkworm, Bombyx mori L and their management/Desh Raj. 3. Efficacy of certain antibiotics against grasserie in silkworm, Bombyx mori L./N. Sivaprakasam and R.J. Rabindra. 4. Inducing tolerance to silkworm, Bombyx mori L. to grasserie disease through selection process/N. Sivaprakasam and R.J. Rabindra. 5. Comparative virulence of certain geogrpahical isolates of nuclear polyhedrosis virus (Sm NPV) to silkworm, Bombyx mori/L.N. Sivaprakasam and R.J. Rabindra. 6. Relative susceptibility of mulberry silkworm races (Bombyx mori L.) to nuclear polyhedrosis virus/N. Sivaprakasam and R.J. Rabindra. 7. Diseases management in silkworm, Bombyx mori/N. Sivaprakasam and N. Chandramohan. V. Diseases, Pests and Predators of Mulberry and their Management: 1. Diseases of mulberry and their control/R.K. Ogra. 2. Insect pests of mulberry and their management/D. Rajagopal and B.C. Hanumanthaswamy. 3. Management of mulberry pests and diseases in North India/Anil Dhar and B.B. Bindroo. 4. Insect pests of mulberry in Kashmir with notes on the bionomics and natural enemy complex of a predominant form Glyphodes pylcalis Wlk. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)/M.A. Khan, M. Nighat and A.R. Trag. 5. Yellow mosaic: an observation on mulberry (Morus alba L.)/V. Suryanarayana and D. Chakravorthy. 6. Major foliar disease of mulberry/B.D. Huddar.

Vol. III: Genetics and Breeding of Mulberry and Silkworm, Silkworm Seed Technology and Silk Technology: VI. Genetics and Breeding of Mulberry and Silkworm: 1. An overview of research in sericulture biotechnology/R.K. Datta. 2. Genetic variation, heritability and path analysis in mulberry/S. Masilamani, V. Thiagarajan, B. Nagaraj and S. Balasubramanian. 3. Cytogenetics and breeding strategies in mulberry/Y.S. Bedi. 4. Isolation of new genotypes by cross-breeding in silkworm, Bombyx mori L/T.P.S. Chauhan, E. Rajalakshmi, V. Thiagarajan, M. Ramesh Babu and V. Lakshmanan. 5. Variation and association of quantitative traits in silkworm, Bombyx mori L/S. Masilamani, V. Thiagarajan, T.P.S. Chauhan and V. Lakshamanan. 6. Cause and effect relationship of various quantitative traits in bivoltine silkworm, Bombyx mori L./A.S. Kamili, A.R. Trag and M.A. Masoodi. VII. Silkworm Seed Technology and Silk Technology: 1. Seed organisation/V. Thiagarajan. 2. Issues on silkworm seed production in India/H.K. Kalappa and K. Thangavelu. 3. Silkworm seed production/V. Thiagarajan. 4. Management of silkworm seed production/A.K. Kulshreshtha. 5. Management of silkworm seed production and its economics/H.K. Kalappa and K. Thangavelu. 6. A study on the yield pattern of mulberry silkworm cocoon crop produced in Akola and Buldanna districts of Maharashtra/K.M.A. Khader and D. Chakravorthy. 7. Handling of bivoltine silkworm eggs/V. Thiagarajan. 8. Post-silk cocoon technology, silk testing and marketing/A.K. Kulshreshtha. 9. A comparative study on the economic returns of mulberry silkworm cocoon crop produced in Akola and Buldana districts of Maharashtra/K.M.A. Khader and D. Chakravorthy. 10. Brief note on the working of Nurpur Silk Mills, Nurpur (H.P.)/S.C. Sood. 11. Silk technology/N. Sivaprakasam. 12. A comprehensive technology for silkworm seed organisation/B. Ghosh, P.R.T. Rao, A.K. Sengupta and S.K. Sen. 13. Industrial silkworm seed production/D.K. Puttaswamy. 14. Chemistry of silk/S.C. Sharma.

Vol. IV: Nonmulberry Sericulture (Tasar, Oak Tasar, Muga and Eri): 1. Food plants of tasar silkworms/M.K. Seth. 2. Biology of Terminalia arjuna and Terminalia tomentosa/P.K. Srivastav and K. Thangavelu. 3. Tasar culture in India: diseases, pests and their management/Desh Raj. 4. Genetic resources and utilization in Terminalia arjuna and Terminalia tomentosa/P.K. Srivastav and K. Thangavelu. 5. Need for conservation of genetic reserves of modal ecorace of Indian wild silk insect Antheraea mylitta D. (Lepidoptera; Saturniidae)/M.O. Alam. 6. Removal of accessory sex gland and its effect on fecundity and egg hatchability of wild tasar silkmoth, Antheraea mylitta in diapause destined generation/Anathbandhu Chaudhuri, K. Damodar Reddy, Niranjan Kumar, Ashok Kumar Sinha and S.S. Sinha. 7. Lipid and its fatty acid composition of haemolymph serum and fat body of tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta drury (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) during diapause/Anathbandhu Chaudhuri, Ashok Kumar Sinha, Sudipta Chatterjee, S.S. Sinha and Rama Ghosh. 8. Food plants of oak tasar silkworms/M.K. Seth. 9. Diseases, pests and predators of oak tasar silkworm Antheraea proylei/J. by R.K. Goel. 10. Grainage practices in oak tasar/R.K. Goel. 11. Management of quality foliage in oak tasar: chemical composition of oak plants/R.K. Goel. 12. Primary and secondary food plants of eri silkworms/M.K. Seth. 13. Food plants of muga silkworms/M.K. Seth. 14. Ontogenic pattern of total haemolymph protein during larval and pupal life of muga silkworm, Antheracea assama Ww/H.C. Mahanta and Narayana Biswas. 15. Application of molecular biology and biotechnology to sericulture with special reference to muga culture/Bala G. Unni, Arundhati Choudhury and Anil C. Ghosh. 16. Litsaea salicifolia: a muga silkworm food plant progpagation and rearing technique/Raja Ram, Satyaendra Kumar and B.C. Goswami. 17. Food plants of wild silkworms/M.K. Seth. IX. Appendix: A report on the training course in sericulture with observations on sericulture in Himachal Pradesh/M.K. Seth and Hari Om Agrawal. Author Index. Subject Index.