Research Progresses on Interaction between Silkworm and Mulberry Tree
The cultivation of mulberry tree for silkworm rearing is a remarkable achievement of the world's agricultural civilization.The domesticated silkworm,a specialist of mulberry leaves,is artificially selected from its ancestor the wild mulberry silkworm and is the first lepidopteran insect to have a se-quenced genome.This review has presented the current studies for the co-evolution of silkworm and mul-berry tree,including the interactions between silkworm digestive proteases and mulberry protease inhibi-tors,the adaptations of silkworm to mulberry secondary metabolites,and the significance of mulberry ure-ase on nitrogen metabolism of silkworm,to provide insights into the future studies of the interaction be-tween silkworm and mulberry tree,and to expand the knowledge on the interactions between phytopha-gous insects and their host plants.
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