Studies on Food Habit Mutation in the Silkworm (I). The Origin and Characteristics of Polyphagous Strain Fb in Bombyx mori.

식성이상잠에 관한 연구 I. 광식성계통 Fb잠의 유래와 성상

Studies were carried out to report breeding procedure and characteristics of Fb, a strain of silkworm with abnormal food habit polyphagous. Selection was continued up to the 14th generation toward higher incidence of cabbage leaves feeding variants. In the autumn of 1992(7th generation), selected strain were subjected to severe selection by feeding them on artificial diet that did not contain mulberry leaf powder. The results were clearly positive and reached to higher than 95% of cabbage feeding in the 14th generation. This strain was first discovered by feeding cabbage leaves, but later they were observed to eat some kind of plants like lettuce, Chinese cabbage, radish, beet, apple, persimmon, pear, etc. As described above the procedure, cabbage feeding trait was clearly heritable. The strain responsible for this traits was named Fb.

광식성계통 Fb잠은 1991년 춘잠기부터 양배추에 대한 섭식성을 기준으로 선발되었다. 선발 7세대째에 상엽분말을 전혀 함유하지 않은 합성사료에 의해 인공사료육을 실시하였으며 그 결과 양배추에 대한 섭식율은 급격히 증가하였다. 1994년 추기까지 14세대 동안 선발을 계속한 결과 95%이상의 양배추 섭식율을 나타냈다. 이 계통은 일반 인공사료뿐 만 아니라 수종의 채소류와 과일류에 대해서도 높은 섭식률을 나타냈으며, 견형질면에 있어서도 상당히 우수하였다.