AbstractNew approaches found promising in silkworms for enhancing features like silk quality, disease protection, and efficiency are molecular breeding and genetic editing. This research report delves further into how genetic editing and molecular breeding techniques have been applied to raise quality parameters in silkworms rearing. Following conventional breeding techniques, use of molecular tools including genome editing technologies such as CRISpen/Cas9, quantitative trait loci (QTL), and marker-assisted selection (MAS), TALENs, and RNA interference (RNAi) have shown great promise in silkworm breeding. These techniques may be applied to improve silk quality, increase in silkworm resistance to illnesses, and even employ silkworms as bioreactors producing valuable proteins. Case examples on the line of illustrating the benefits of excellent genetic modifications, their application in the corporate sector, and their impact on the sericulture sector are discussed. From ethical, environmental, and legal angles, the application of genetic editing in silkworms emphasises the necessity of responsible innovation. This study article aims to present a whole picture of how sericulture, genetic engineering, and molecular breeding cooperate, with particular attention on how these technologies might entirely transform the production of silk.
Patil et al. (Wed,) studied this question.