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	4.55^a	2.06^a	2.49^a	61.91^a	54.79^a
Native	34	5.39^b	3.22^b	2.17^b	69.03^b	40.25^b
Black berry	36	5.53^b	3.48^c	2.05^b	68.84^b	37.10^c
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

^a,bValues in the same column with different superscripts differ significantly at .