Controlling of bacterial and fungal diseases that contaminating mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori by using some plant extracts

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 4 Effect of Mulberry leaves, Black seed and Basil leaves extracts as disinfectants on silk filament characters of infected Silkworm, B. mori larvae with B. bassiana

Extracts	Conc.^a	Silk Length (m)	Silk weight (g)	Silk size (dn)
Mulberry Leaves	3%	1153.00^a	0.225^a	1.755^a
	2%	1103.75^a	0.223^a	1.823^a
	1%	993.750^a	0.203^a	1.840^a
Black seed	3%	1286.40^a	0.290^a	2.070^a
	2%	1158.45^a	0.253^a	1.963^a
	1%	1012.25d^a	0.240^a	2.138^a
Basil Leaves	3%	1106.40^a	0.315^a	2.550^a
	2%	1085.00^a	0.275^a	2.273^a
	1%	958.40^a	0.280^a	2.430^a
B. bassiana infected control		691.50^a	0.160^a	2.080^a
Control		1089.50^a	0.318^a	2.627^a
F value		26.028	7.804	5.491
LSD_0.05		98.2	0.05	0.34
P ≥ 0.05		0.0000**	0.000**	0.000**