Detection of pebrine disease and Bombyx mori Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (BmNPV) in silkworm moths (Bombyx mori. L)

Abstract

Silkworm is an insect that can produce silk fiber at any step of life, one of them in the moth phase. There are still not many researchers who have researched pebrine and BmNPV disease detection in the moth phase. This research purpose was to find out pebrine and BmNPV disease detection on moth phase. This research was conducted from January 2021 to March 2021 with samples obtained from the Center for Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership, South Sulawesi in Bili-Bili, Gowa district. The data processing was done at the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Tree Breeding, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar. Data analysis was done using the descriptive analysis method by looking at the primer amplification of Pebrine disease and BmNPV in the silkworm moth phase. The detection of pebrine disease ad BmNPV from the two primers showed that from 12 moths studied, none of the moths detected either pebrine disease or BmNPV disease.