Bob Sulick used to pick berries from the tree that grew in back of Cavey’s Restaurant when he worked there as a chef. He used the fruit in desserts. Leon Zapadka planted one of the varietyin his yard ...

BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have found that a key gene of silkworms is related to its feeding preference for mulberry leaves, providing possible new strategies for silkworm rearing ...

Aerial photo taken on May 13, 2017 shows mulberry fish ponds in Nanxun District, Huzhou City of east China's Zhejiang Province. Mulberry fish pond is a special dike-pond mode, integrated fish ponds ...

A new study published online on May 7th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has found the source of silkworms' attraction to mulberry leaves, their primary food source. A jasmine-scented ...

(Illustrations from A Treatise on the Mulberry Tree and Silkworm and on the Manufacture and Production of Silk, 1839. Courtesy of York County Heritage Trust Library/Archives) Silk has been prized for ...

Researchers have found that silkworms produce a special digestive enzyme, previously not found in any animals, that is not affected by the toxic chemicals found in mulberry leaves. Silkworms have a ...

Mulberry is well received in both China and Pakistan. On this kind of fruit that is a little ‘low-key’, unlike mango or cherry, Sino-Pak cooperation is also in progress. Chinese seeds and technologies ...

Silkworms have a unique ability to eat toxic mulberry leaves without feeling ill, and researchers have come one step closer to understanding why: silkworms contain a special digestive enzyme that is ...