Relevance of Antibiotics with Reference to Sericulture Industry

There are many factors that influcence the success of production of silk. In recent years some antimicrobial agents have been used in for controlling of silkworm diseases and to improve the production of silk. Antibiotics play a vital role in improvement of disease resistance and growth enhancement in the animals and insects. Antibiotics administration shows promising results in harvesting superior crop and controlling the silkworm diseases. The link between antibiotics and silkworm is further strengthened by the present uses of silkworm in drug screening and pathogen studies systems due to its short larval period and ethically accepted model. In view of the above, the current review aims to focus on potentiality of antibiotics on the growth and control of silkworm diseases as well as establishing the silkworm as an effective tool for experimentation in the existing system of pathogen studies and drug screening.