Research Article
Nutritional Effects of Three Mulberry Varieties on Silkworms in Torbat Heydarieh
Table 1
Mean of leaf ingesta and digesta parameters of silkworm hybrid treated with three varieties of mulberry leaves.
| Tree variety | Dry matter (%) | Leaf ingested (g) | Excreta weight (g) | Leaf digested (g) | Ingestability (%) | Digestibility (%) |
| Kenmochi | 32 | 4.55a | 2.06a | 2.49a | 61.91a | 54.79a | Native | 34 | 5.39b | 3.22b | 2.17b | 69.03b | 40.25b | Black berry | 36 | 5.53b | 3.48c | 2.05b | 68.84b | 37.10c | Mean ± SE | 34 ± 1.15 | 5.16 ± 0.11 | 2.20 ± 0.08 | 2.42 ± 0.06 | 66.59 ± 1.37 | 44.20 ± 0.78 | CV | 3.34 | 2.04 | 2.74 | 2.54 | 2.50 | 1.79 | F | 2.08 | 38.69 | 136.53 | 25.04 | 13.68 | 218.33 | | 0.2115 | 0.0019 | 0.0002 | 0.0043 | 0.0133 | 0.0001 |
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a,bValues in the same column with different superscripts differ significantly at . |