Course Outcomes (CO) – Ph.D
Ph.D., (Sericulture)
| SER 801 | Principles of soil and crop management in mulberry | 2+1 |
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| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Soil, plant and water relationship | |
| CO2 | Fertilizer use, interaction with soil moisture, soil moisture and fertilizer availability | |
| CO3 | Irrigation, water budgeting, different approaches in scheduling
irrigation and instruments for soil moisture estimation |
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| CO4 | Management of poor quality water | |
| CO5 | Soil characterization, physicochemical properties of soils | |
| CO6 | Soil texture, structure and their importance on plant growth, Soil moisture, forms and importance of soil moisture on plant growth | |
| CO7 | Recycling of organic wastes | |
| CO8 | Bio fertilizers, concepts, combination of microorganisms to soil fertility | |
| CO9 | Azotobacter, importance and nitrogen fixing ability | |
| CO10 | Combined inoculation of nitrogen fixer and mycorrhizal
fungi, Phosphobacteria and cost benefit ratio |
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| SER 802 | Physiology and Nutrition of Mulberry | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Physiological aspects of mulberry | |
| CO2 | Role of hormones in bud sprouting and rooting of cuttings | |
| CO3 | Role of physical agents like temperature and water, Growth and development | |
| CO4 | Photoperiodism and thermoperiodism | |
| CO5 | Dormancy and viability of buds and seeds | |
| CO6 | Concept and establishment of separate mulberry garden for chawki and late age worms | |
| CO7 | Maintenance of leaf quality | |
| CO8 | Role of primary, secondary and micronutrients in mulberry | |
| CO9 | Impact of nutrient deficiency on silkworm growth and development | |
| CO10 | Physiology of abiotic and biotic stress |
| SER 803 | Advances in Silkworm Genetics and Breeding | 2+1 |
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| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Silkworm genetics | |
| CO2 | Chromosome organization and mechanism of sex determination | |
| CO3 | Linkage maps, regional differentiation of chromosome segments | |
| CO4 | Disturbance in segment formation | |
| CO5 | Role and mechanism of maternal inheritance | |
| CO6 | Genetics and inheritance of voltinism | |
| CO7 | Biochemical genetics and surrogate markers | |
| CO8 | Heterosis and combining ability | |
| CO9 | Breeding for silk quality and temperature tolerance | |
| CO10 | Mutation breeding and silkworm improvement through mutagenesis | |
| SER 804 | Advances in Sericulture Pest Management | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Biodiversity in mulberry ecosystem | |
| CO2 | Invasive pests of mulberry and their management | |
| CO3 | Biological and chemical control in mulberry | |
| CO4 | Soil borne diseases of mulberry and their damage | |
| CO5 | Host parasite relationship of key nematodes of mulberry and their management | |
| CO6 | Types of silkworm diseases | |
| CO7 | Bacterial disease and their management | |
| CO8 | Current trends in silkworm flacherie management | |
| CO9 | Grasserie management in silkworm | |
| CO10 | Wolbachia: biology and physiology and its utility in sericulture |
| SER 805 | Advances in Post Cocoon Technology | 2+1 |
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| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Different tests for assessing the cocoon qualities | |
| CO2 | Advances in cocoon cooking and brushing | |
| CO3 | Automatic silk reeling machine | |
| CO4 | Objectives and advantages of silk testing and grading | |
| CO5 | Silk testing and conditioning houses | |
| CO6 | BIS and ISA specifications on testing and grading of silk | |
| CO7 | Warp and weft specification | |
| CO8 | Zari making from silk and its usage | |
| CO9 | Printing and designing in silk sarees | |
| CO10 | Byproducts of post cocoon sector and its uses |
| SER 806 | By-Product Utilization in Sericulture | 2+1 |
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| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Mulberry fruit, type, uses, nutrient composition, compounds of medicinal value | |
| CO2 | Mulberry as fodder, food and timber , religious importance and basket making | |
| CO3 | Seri waste and its nutrient composition, seri waste as biogas, Composting | |
| CO4 | Silkworm faeces | |
| CO5 | Usage as poultry and animal feed | |
| CO6 | Silkworm pupae, nutrient composition and usage as poultry and fish food | |
| CO7 | Application food industry and sericulture | |
| CO8 | Physicochemical characterization of chitosan extracted from silkworm pupae | |
| CO9 | Use of silk industry reeling waste water | |
| CO10 | Utilization of silk reeling waste | |
| SER 811 | Advances in Silkworm Physiology and Nutrition | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Silkworm physiology and nutrition | |
| CO2 | Importance of quality leaves in silkworm nutrition | |
| CO3 | Pigment metabolism | |
| CO4 | Feeding physiology | |
| CO5 | Nutritional composition of mulberry leaves and their role on silkworm growth | |
| CO6 | Digestive physiology of silkworm larva | |
| CO7 | Types of absorption | |
| CO8 | Composition of amino acids in silk gland and silk fibre | |
| CO9 | Gene structure – transcription and translation of fibroin gene | |
| CO10 | Role of co2 and o2 in silkworm during rearing and spinning | |
| SER 812 | Grainage Technology | 2+1 |
| Out come | ||
| CO1 | Indian sericulture scenario in egg production | |
| CO2 | Preparation for Egg Production | |
| CO3 | Sex separation in egg, larva, pupa and adult | |
| CO4 | Sheet egg production and logistics | |
| CO5 | Loose egg production | |
| CO6 | Egg Morphology and Physiology | |
| CO7 | Bivoltine seed production, importance and characteristic features | |
| CO8 | Seed Multiplication | |
| CO9 | Disease Free Egg Production | |
| CO10 | Economics of Egg Production |