Enhancing social welfare: evaluating the influence of motor vehicle emissions on mulberry leaves, food sustainability, and conservation efficacy for mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori Linn
Keywords:
larvae, nutritional indices, fume pollutants, hybrid, mulberry, silkwormAbstract
This current study is conducted to determine potential impact of feeding motor vehicle-related major pollutants, such as Sulphur dioxide, Nitrogen oxides, Carbon monoxide, Volatile organic compounds, & green gases polluted mulberry leaves, to silkworms, Bombyx mori L. The study used silkworm hybrids, CSR2 × CSR4, SH6 × NB4D2, DUN22 × DUN6 & CSR double hybrid, with relation road pollutants from National Highways throughout India. Numerous pollutants from the roads are produced, and these pollutants end up on the leaves of mulberries. The silkworm is a monophagous bug that only consumes leaves from mulberries. By raising silkworm larvae on air-contaminated mulberry leaves, in addition to quantity, the impact on silkworm nutritional indices, food digestion processes & conversion efficiency were evaluated. By feeding silkworm larvae on air-contaminated mulberry leaves, impact on nutritional indices of the silkworms, food digestion processes, and the effectiveness of conversion were evaluated. In addition, the quantity of pollutant sediments on the mulberry leaves was quantified. When fed extremely polluted mulberry leaves, as opposed to different stages of larvae fed lowly contaminated mulberry leaves, the silkworm larvae's assimilation, food consumption & conversion efficiency significantly decreased in both IVth & Vth instar larvae. However, because larvae use the upper limited amount of feed in Vth instar, effect was more enunciate. Because of decreased conversion efficiency, silkworm larvae's average larval weight & average larval weight gain were both lower, as was cocoon production rate. When given extremely polluted mulberry leaves, all of the CSR2 × CSR4, SH6 × NB4D2, DUN22 × DUN6 & CSR double hybrids showed a noticeable effect; nevertheless, the CSR double hybrid was the least pretentious and the CSR2 × CSR4 hybrid was the most pompous.
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