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I. Course Title
: Silkworm Biochemistry and Nutrition
II. Course Code
: SER 508
III. Credit Hours
: 1+1
IV. Why this course ?
The silkworm growth directly depends on the food it consumes, digestion of consumed
food to nutrients and assimilation of the digested nutrients into its body and then
produce silk cocoons. The present course is designed to make the students
understand the nutrients required for normal growth of silkworm and produce
quality cocoons.
V. Aim of the course
The post graduate students should have a clear understanding of importance of
feeding leaf with suitable nutrients in order to obtain reliable results of experiments
conducted with silkworms. The course on silkworm biochemistry and nutrition will
aim at enlightening the students on importance of raising silkworm on suitable
mulberry leaves that nourish silkworm so as to undoubtedly infer the impact of
treatments imposed during the experimentation. Further, they will be competent

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enough to emphasise on the balanced nutrition to mulberry among the farmers,
since it’s the sole food for silkworm.
The course is organized as follows:
No.
Blocks
Units
1
Nutrients for silkworm growth
1.
Requirement of nutrients to silkworm
2.
Metabolism and Utilization of nutrients
2
Biochemistry of nutrient utilization
1.
Biochemical pathway for survival and cocoon
production
VI. Theory
BLOCK 1: Nutrients for silkworm growth
Unit 1:
Requirement of nutrients to silkworm
Carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism, chemical nature of vitamins
and hormones. Nutritional requirements of amino acids, lipids,
vitamins, minerals. qualitative and quantitative requirements of
nutrients.