Multifunctional mulberry silk fabrics with excellent temperatureand pH-sensitivity, antibacterial properties and permeability are successfully prepared by surface modification with PNIPAAm/chitosan/poly(ethylene oxide) nanofibers. The nanofibers deposited on the surface of mulberry silk fabric are produced by the electrospinning technique. The surface properties of mulberry silk fabrics were ch...

Mulberry (Morus alba L.) is an important economic tree species in many countries. Quantitative real time PCR (qRT-PCR) has become a widely used method for gene expression studies in plants. A suitable reference gene is essential to ensure accurate and reliable results for qRT-PCR analyses. However, no reports describing the selection of reference genes have been published for mulberry. In this ...

Mulberry (Morus spp.) is the only food plant for the silkworm, Bombyx mori Linn., which is an economically important insect for sericulture industry. Mulberry is attacked by a number of insect pests, parasites, predators and pathogens around the year which not only affect the leaf quality but also responsible for poor yield. Mulberry is reported to be attacked by more than 200 species of insect...

Xylella fastidiosa causes bacterial leaf scorch in many landscape trees including elm, oak, sycamore and mulberry, but methods for specific identification of a particular tree host species-limited strain or differentiation of tree-specific strains are lacking. It is also unknown whether a particular landscape tree-infecting X. fastidiosa strain is capable of infecting multiple landscape tree sp...

Mulberry pyralid Glypodes pyloalis Wlk. is a serious pest of Uzbekistan mulberry plantations. Use of chemical pesticides has many lacks their toxicity and mutagenity for the human, animals, including beneficial insects, and environmental contaminations. Effect of entomopathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses and nematodes on mulberry pyralid is investigated in the work. These agents are harmless to...

BACKGROUND Although grape wines have firmly dominated the production and consumption markets of fruit wines, raspberry, strawberry, and mulberry have been utilized to make wines because of their joyful aroma and high contents of polyphenolic phytochemicals and essential fatty acids. However, little is known about aromatic compounds of the wines produced from these three fruits. METHODS The ar...

Mulberry leaves (Morus alba L.) are a traditional Chinese medicine for blood serum glucose reduction. This study evaluated the protective effects of mulberry flavonoids on sciatic nerve in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. In this study, 80 Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into five groups: A (control), B (diabetic treated with saline), C-D (diabetic treated with 0.3, 0.1 g/kg mulberry flavonoids ...

Treatment with chemotherapy or radiation is not invariably cytotoxic to all tumor cells. Some of the cells that survive treatment recover and resume proliferation, whereas others undergo permanent growth arrest. To understand the nature of treatment-induced terminal growth arrest, colon carcinoma cells were exposed to doxorubicin, and surviving cells were separated into proliferating and growth...

Cellular senescence is a potent tumor suppressor, putting damaged cells into early retirement by halting their continued division. However, the cocktail of growth factors, cytokines, and proteases secreted by senescent cells has been shown to enhance tumor progression in neighboring cells. Baker and colleagues now show that senescent cells can also influence the apparent age of the tissues in w...

Improving mulberry leaf production with enhanced leaf quality holds the key to sustain the ever increasing demand for silk. Adoption of modern genomic approaches for crop improvement is severely constrained by the lack of sufficient molecular markers in mulberry. Here, we report development and validation of 206 EST derived SSR markers using transcriptome data generated from leaf tissue of a dr...