Bangladesh Sericulture Research and Training Institute

ABSTRACT The pursuit of sustainable growth and ecological balance has become a central policy priority for OECD nations. While prior studies examined economic, technological, and environmental determinants of sustainability, the joint effect of macroeconomic policies, technological innovation, and institutional uncertainty remains underexplored. This study addressed this gap by investigating how monetary policy, fiscal policy, economic complexity, energy transition, green technology, and ESG uncertainty jointly influence green growth and ecological footprint over the period 2003 to 2022 in 17 OECD nations. To account for nonlinear and asymmetric relationships, advanced econometric methods, including quantile‐on‐quantile regression (QQ) and cross‐quantilogram (CQ) methods are employed. The results show that all six factors significantly promote green growth while reducing ecological footprint, indicating their complementary role in driving sustainable transformation. The results suggest the importance of integrating coordinated macroeconomic management, innovation‐driven technological strategies, and transparent ESG practices to support a low‐carbon transition. Policymakers are encouraged to implement green‐oriented monetary and fiscal policies, foster technological efficiency, and strengthen institutional accountability to achieve long‐term ecological stability. This study contributes to the literature by linking macroeconomic, technological, and environmental dimensions within a unified green growth framework, providing robust empirical evidence to guide policy design and promote sustainable development across OECD nations.

Silkworm, Bombyx mori, has passive immunity and can be infected by pathogenic bacteria. Therefore, it can be used as a robust bacterial infection model for screening of pathogenic isolates from various sources. In this work, 11 environmental, clinical and veterinary isolates were screened for pathogenicity using silkworm larvae by injecting bacterial suspension through their dorsal surface and observing response. Experimental conditions were established by using Bacillus thuringiensis SW_R_F_1, Escherichia coli 0157:H7, E. coli DH5a and 0.6% saline. Nine out of 11 isolates were detected pathogenic after screening. The biochemical and genomic analysis of the nine test isolates confirmed their pathogenicity. The LD₅₀ of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 47D and Salmonella Typhimurium 77 were 4.63x107 at 12 hours was 8.02x10⁷ cells/lOOμI/gram at 24 hours respectively. These results indicated that silkworm exhibits differential pathological response for pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria, and can be used as an alternative to animal model for screening diverse isolates.

Abstract Five cultivated mulberry plant varieties, BSRM‐34, BSRM‐56, BSRM‐57, BSRM‐58 and BSRM‐59, were used to evaluate the effects of plant variety on larval and cocoon characteristics of mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori L. Silkworm larvae undergo their entire larval periods on leaves of mulberry varieties. Different larval characteristics of larval weight, larval length and larval breadth were measured in different growth stages. After rearing, the fifth instar larvae were transferred into a mountage (Chandraki) structure for cocoon rearing for spinning and cocoon production. The cocoons were then harvested and different cocoon characteristics like cocoon weight, shell weight and shell percentage; and other characters like pupal weight and effective rate of rearing were measured. The results showed statistically significant differences among different varieties on larval and cocoon characteristics. The highest performance was observed by feeding the variety BSRM‐34 in respect of the average weight of 10 mature larvae (40.5 g), single mature larval length (7.6 cm) and breadth (1.0 cm), single cocoon weight (1.4 g), shell weight (0.2 g) and pupal weight (1.2 g) while the average performance was recorded by feeding varieties BSRM‐57 and BSRM‐59. The poorest performance was showed by feeding the variety BSRM‐56 (in case of larval characters) and BSRM‐58 (in case of cocoon characteristics). These two varieties also showed the poorest performance for silk yield. Through comparing all the above parameters it was concluded that BSRM‐34 is the best mulberry variety and it is recommended that Bangladeshi farmers adopt that variety for better yield of silk.

Key words: Mulberry; biochemical changes; cocoon characters; leaf spot disease; Cercospora moricola Univ. j. zool. Rajshahi Univ. Vol.21, 2002. pp. 85-87

Experiment was conducted at the research field of Bangladesh Sericulture Research and Training Institute, Rajshahi in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 to investigate the effect of NPK fertilizers and frequency of irrigation on leaf yield, yield components and leaf quality characters of three mulberry varieties. Four levels of NPK fertilizers and three levels of irrigation were adopted. The treatments comprising 300 kg N, 150 kg P, and 100 kg K/ha/yr along with two irrigations in a month was found to be the best for higher leaf yield, leaf moisture and leaf nutrient contents of mulberry plants (var. BM-3). Key Words: Mulberry, NPK fertilizers, irrigation, nutritive quality. DOI: 10.3329/bjar.v34i3.3969 Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 34(3) : 435-442, September 2009