The effect of ascorbic acid and lemon juice on the silkworm, Bombyx mori has been studied with reference to larval growth, protein synthesis and silk production. Both these exogenous factors, when supplemented with mulberry diet, showed positive impact on larval growth during the fourth and fifth instar developmental stages. The analysis of growth trends in terms of compound periodical growth r...

In silkworm, prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), directly or indirectly controls silk production and spinning activity along with juvenile hormone (JH). An effort was made to exploit the potential of PTTH by indirectly activating silk gland for increasing silk productivity using short chain synthetic analogues of PTTH. The analogy in action was also established using PTTH extracted from the silk...

We present a new route to single-molecule sensing via solvation shells surrounding a current-carrying backbone molecule. As an example, we show that the presence of a water solvation shell "gates" the conductance of a family of oligothiophene-containing molecular wires, and that the longer the oligothiophene, the larger is the effect. For the longest example studied, the molecular conductance i...

A combination of static and dynamic laser light scattering has revealed that at temperatures higher than ,33 ±C a linear poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) chain grafted with poly(ethylene oxide) (PNIPAMg-PEO) in water can undergo a “coil-to-globule” transition to form a stable single chain core-shell nanostructure with the collapsed PNIPAM chain backbone as the hydrophobic core and the grafted PEO br...

In response to the ambient temperature, insects' physiology and behaviour change just like those of all other living things. For this investigation, FC1 X FC2 double hybrid silkworm strain/breed was used. The larvae were collected on third day their fifth instar put in little paper trays for a one-hour cold shock treatment at 10, 15 20°C with relative humidity 75±5% B. O. D. CS-induced allowed ...

The K − /K + ratio in heavy-ion collisions at GSI energies is studied including the properties of the participating hadrons in hot and dense matter. The determination of the temperature and chemical potential at freeze-out conditions compatible with the ratio K − /K + is very delicate, and depends on the approach adopted for the antikaon self-energy. Three approaches for the K − self-energy are...

The K−/K+ ratio in heavy-ion collisions at GSI is studied including the properties of the participating hadrons in hot and dense matter, paying a particular attention to the in-medium properties of antikaons at finite temperature. The determination of the temperature and chemical potential at freeze-out conditions compatible with the ratio K−/K+ is very delicate, and depends on the approach ado...

The K−/K+ ratio in heavy-ion collisions at GSI is studied including the properties of the participating hadrons in hot and dense matter, paying a particular attention to the in-medium properties of antikaons at finite temperature. The determination of the temperature and chemical potential at freeze-out conditions compatible with the ratio K−/K+ is very delicate, and depends on the approach ado...

The influence of VAM fungi and bacterial biofertilizer (BBF) with 50% reduction in the recommended dose of (N and P) chemical fertilizers on leaf quality traits of mulberry variety (S-13) and its impact on silkworm (PM ? NB4D2) growth and cocoon characters were studied under semi-arid conditions. Four different treatments were imposed i.e., T1: Control (only 100% NPK); T2: VAM (50% cut in P); ...