Course Outcomes (CO) – PG
M.Sc. (Sericulture)
| SER 601 | Mulberry Crop Production Technology | 2+1 |
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| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Climatic requirements and constraints and propagation
methods |
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| CO2 | Soil fertility, fertilizer recommendation, integrated nutrient management and organic farming | |
| CO3 | Water requirement and management | |
| CO4 | Chawki garden maintenance | |
| CO5 | Training and pruning | |
| CO6 | Harvesting methods of mulberry leaves | |
| CO7 | Leaf quality concept and assessment | |
| CO8 | Sericulture in integrated farming system | |
| CO9 | Resource management in mulberry crop production | |
| CO10 | Machineries in sericulture | |
| SER 602 | Techniques of Mulberry and Silkworm Breeding | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Mulberry genotypes and species diversity | |
| CO2 | Mulberry breeding programmes | |
| CO3 | Breeding for tree types | |
| CO4 | Mutation breeding and methods | |
| CO5 | Handling of vegetative propagated materials | |
| CO6 | Concepts and principles of silkworm genetics | |
| CO7 | Inbreeding techniques | |
| CO8 | Selection for single trait and multi traits | |
| CO9 | Mitosis, meiosis and cytological studies with mulberry | |
| CO10 | Characterization descriptors for different life stages of Bombyxmori | |
| SER 603 | Silkworm Biology | 1+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Silkworm integument, moulting process and voltinism and Body regions | |
| CO2 | Male and female genitalia in silk moths | |
| CO3 | Morphology and anatomy of eggs of silkworm | |
| CO4 | Diapause and physiology of diapause | |
| CO5 | Stages of development in diapausing and non diapausing eggs | |
| CO6 | Principles underlying breaking diapause and cold storage | |
| CO7 | Structure and function of silk gland | |
| CO8 | composition of amino acids in silk gland and silk fibre | |
| CO9 | Bio synthesis of silk and chemistry of fibroin, sericin and P25 | |
| CO10 | Role of food supplementation: vitamins, proteins, minerals and sugars on silk yield | |
| SER 604 | Silkworm Nutrition | 1+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Insect nutrition, principles, qualitative and quantitative | |
| CO2 | Physical features and quality of mulberry leaves | |
| CO3 | Nutritional composition of mulberry leaves | |
| CO4 | Feeding physiology of silkworm | |
| CO5 | Sensory receptors in food selection | |
| CO6 | Co-factors for silkworm feeding | |
| CO7 | Requirement of water, vitamins, growth factors , minerals and antibiotics | |
| CO8 | Intestinal flora of silkworm | |
| CO9 | Antiviral properties of gut juice | |
| CO10 | nutrient management through food supplementation | |
| SER 605 | Silkworm Pests and their management | 1+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Pests of silkworm | |
| CO2 | Uzifly: distribution, taxonomy and nomenclature of Exorista | |
| CO3 | Extent of damage and alternate hosts | |
| CO4 | Management of uzifly | |
| CO5 | Biological methods and Hyper parasitoids of uzifly | |
| CO6 | Mass production of uzi fly hyper parasitoids and their release techniques | |
| CO7 | Non – insect pests of silkworm | |
| CO8 | Life cycle and morphology of mites | |
| CO9 | Pests of grainage | |
| CO10 | Integrated management | |
| SER 606 | Diseases of silkworm and their management | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Insect pathology, history, concepts and definition | |
| CO2 | kinds of infection, classification of diseases and non-infectious diseases | |
| CO3 | Nutritional and genetic diseases | |
| CO4 | Classification of insect viruses | |
| CO5 | Baculoviridae(BmNPV) and causes for out break | |
| CO6 | Management methods for BmNPV | |
| CO7 | Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis(BmCPV) | |
| CO8 | Management of Bm CPV | |
| CO9 | Flacherie diseases and its management | |
| CO10 | Protozoan diseases of silkworm and its management | |
| SER 607 | Bioresources Management in Sericulture | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Ecological requirements for silkworm rearing | |
| CO2 | Strategizing rearing schedule | |
| CO3 | Innovative techniques in silkworm rearing | |
| CO4 | Physiological requirements of young silkworms | |
| CO5 | Role of phytoecdysones | |
| CO6 | Recycling of sericulture resources | |
| CO7 | Utilization of mulberry | |
| CO8 | Composting techniques for sericulture waste | |
| CO9 | Utilization Generation of cut cocoon | |
| CO10 | Cocoon crafts | |
| SER 608 | Silk Reeling Technology | 1+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Physical and commercial characters of cocoon | |
| CO2 | Cocoon testing, defective cocoons, Cocoon deflossing and Cocoon drying / stifling | |
| CO3 | Cooking – Brushing – Re-reeling | |
| CO4 | Reeling machines: Charka, Cottage basin, Multiend reeling machine and Automatic Reeling machines | |
| CO5 | Reeling water | |
| CO6 | Qualities, standard for reeling water, different water treatment
methods |
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| CO7 | Properties and reeling process of non-mulberry cocoons | |
| CO8 | Spun silk production technology | |
| CO9 | Silk testing and grading | |
| CO10 | Advanced raw silk testing machines | |
| SER 609 | Principles of Mulberry and Castor Crop Protection | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Insect ecology | |
| CO2 | Role of biotic factors and Abiotic factors on insect population | |
| CO3 | Outbreak of pests | |
| CO4 | Pest monitoring, pest surveillance and forecasting | |
| CO5 | Pest management and Components of pest management | |
| CO6 | Quarantine, Insecticides Act, Phytosanitary certificate, Pest legislation and Seed act | |
| CO7 | Host plant resistance: types and mechanisms, ecological and genetic
resistance |
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| CO8 | Plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses ,phytoplasma and phanerogamic parasites | |
| CO9 | Economic importance of plant parasitic nematodes | |
| CO10 | Integrated management | |
| SER 610 | Non-Mulberry Sericulture | 1+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Status of Vanyasilk industry, History andtTypes of non-mulberry silks | |
| CO2 | Eri culture: food plants of Samiacynthiaricini–– distribution, cultivation and management practices | |
| CO3 | Pests and diseases of S. riciniand theirmanagement | |
| CO4 | Tasar culture | |
| CO5 | Voltinism, distribution, Food plants cultivation | |
| CO6 | Morphology of Tasar – Rearing practices of A. mylitta | |
| CO7 | Pests and diseases of A. mylittaand theirmanagement | |
| CO8 | Muga culture | |
| CO9 | Biodiversity of muga fauna, Primary host plants of muga, som and
soalu cultivation |
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| CO10 | Post cocoon technologies for eri and tasar silk | |
| SER 611 | Techniques of Seed Cocoon and Egg Production | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Silkworm seed cocoon, Status, importance, production techniques | |
| CO2 | Parent seed cocoon production | |
| CO3 | Role of nutrition and environment | |
| CO4 | Seed organization | |
| CO5 | Seed areas, seed rearers, Seed Acts and licensing procedures | |
| CO6 | Morphology of silkworm eggs – Bombyx, Eri, Tasar and Muga | |
| CO7 | Ideal grainage | |
| CO8 | Pre ovipositionbehaviour | |
| CO9 | Loose egg production | |
| CO10 | Economics of silkworm egg production |