STUDY OF PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES IN MULBERRY SILKWORM FEEDING ON MULBERRY LEAVES SUPPLEMENTED WITH CAMPHOR HONEY AND OIL

Study was conducted to evaluate the physiological and biochemical changes, [glutamic pyruvic transaminase (gpt), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (got), total soluble protein (tsp), lipid peroxidation (mda) and protein carbonyl content (pcc)] in haemolymph of mulberry silkworm bombyx mori larvae were reared on mulberry leaves treated with camphor honey and oil as a nutritional additives in the 4th and 5th instars with five concentrations. results showed that at 4% & 5% concentrations of honey and 1% & 2% concentrations of oil exhibited the best results compared with control; larvae reared on leaves enriched with these concentrations of honey and oil showed a significant increase in gpt, got and tsp means and a significant decrease in free radicals (mda & pcc) means compared with control.