Abstract
Mulberry is a very hard and quickly developing plant belongs to the family of Moraceae. The leaf of mulberry is exclusively utilized for feeding and rising of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) for the production of silk yarn. It is evaluated that mulberry silk contributes around 90% of the total worldwide raw silk production that contributed to socio-economic development worldwide. The usage of mulberry leaves as silkworm feed, it is being utilized for food and medicinal purpose also. For instance, the mulberry fruit because of its high nutritive value and flavorful taste is getting significance as important foodstuff. The mulberry bark and wood are likewise helpful for assembling of paper and sports products things. Mulberry is a quickly developing with profound roots, flourish leaves, high protections from pollution, wind, sand, drought, and salinity with strong adaptability and simple cultivation. The broad environmental adaptability of mulberry to light, temperature, water, soil and other normal conditions objectively empowers it to have numerous environmental defensive capacities in water and soil protection, wind tolerance and sand consolidation, water source preservation, and air refreshment. Since earlier, Ayurveda and other literature have claimed the diverse medicinal properties against certain serious diseases e.g. hypertension, hyperglycemia, cancer, arthritis, diabetes and rheumatis, heart disease, inflammation, fever, cough and throat, stomach related disease, unsteadiness, hepatitis etc. The current studies of different pharmacological compounds of medicinal significance present in mulberry plants opens up new avenues of research in the medical science. Under this study briefly described about economic as well as environmental importance of mulberry taking into account different aspects of its role as animal feed, foodstuff, phytomedicine and remediation of polluted soils and atmosphere, etc. J. Bio-Sci. 29(1): 163-179, 2021 (June)
Highlights
The mulberry is a quickly developing hardy perennial woody plant belongs to the family Moraceae (Pan and Lou 2008, Yang et al 2010)
The cancer prevention agent of the extracts got from various mulberry plant parts leaves, branches, viz. roots and fruits was examined by a few scientists (Andallu et al 2001, Andallu and Varadacharyulu 2002, Arfan et al 2012)
Among the 28 fruits ordinarily consumed in China, mulberry mash was characterized by one of the highest values of the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) at 4.11 m. mol/100 g wet weight (Guo et al 2003)
Summary
The mulberry is a quickly developing hardy perennial woody plant belongs to the family Moraceae (Pan and Lou 2008, Yang et al 2010). The plants are cultivated under both tropical and temperate climatic conditions of different regions in Bangladesh (Rahman and Islam 2020a). It has numerous significant qualities like higher foliage yield, shorter growth period and more environmental adaptability etc. Leaves of mulberry plant are broadly utilized for the primary and only food of silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) for the production of silk yarn (Rahman and Islam 2020b). A wildly developing rural mulberry plant, M. nigra is accounted to have medicinal benefits especially in treating arthritis, diabetes and rheumatis (Pérez-Gregorio et al 2011). This paper reviews the economic and environmental importance of mulberry taking into account several aspects of its role as animal feed, foodstuff, phytomedicine and remediation of polluted soils and atmosphere etc
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