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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, a leading developer of spider silk based fibres, is now in the process of assessing its needs for additional mulberry trees having completed planting first 2,000 mulberry trees at its Texas location. These trees will be used to supply the company’s US recombinant spider silk operations with fresh mulberry leaves.
The company expecting harvesting these leaves to begin in the third or fourth quarter of this year It will also make a decision regarding additional plantings later this year.
