What is Sericulture? What is the silk fibre made up of?
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Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk.
Silk fibres (B. mori) spun out from silkworm cocoons consists of fibroin in the inner layer and sericin in the outer layer. Each raw silk thread has a lengthwise striation, consisting of two fibroin filaments of 10–14 μm each which are embedded in sericin.
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Sericulture, the production of raw silk by means of raising caterpillars (larvae), particularly those of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori). ... Care of the silkworm from the egg stage through completion of the cocoon. Production of mulberry trees that provide leaves upon which the worms feed.
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