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Related Keywords: conservation, discerning customers, jointly organized by Central Silk Board, on Wild Moths, part of three-day 8th International Conference, popularise silk fabrics, post-cocoon technology, research on host plants, sericulture, silk processing, silkworms, vanya or wild silk and Silkmark exhibition, wild silk industry

A vanya or wild silk and Silkmark exhibition will be part of the three-day 8th International Conference on Wild Moths jointly organized by the Central Silk Board (CSB) under the central ministry of textiles and the International Society for Wild Silk Moths, Japan, at Hotel Radisson Blu in Guwahati from January 22 to popularise silk fabrics among discerning customers in the state.

Related Keywords: plain old silk, silkworms, spider silk factory, University of Wyoming

The world's first comprehensive commercial spider-silk production facilities to be developed in Vietnam with Kraig Biocraft Laboratories partnering with University of Wyoming and the University of Notre Dame to genetically engineer silkworms to produce spider silk, expects to sign and announce a landmark spider silk production agreement with the country of Vietnam.

Related Keywords: Indian Researchers, National Chemical Laboratory, silkworms, spin coloured silk

Eco-friendly method to help silkworms spin naturally fluorescent, coloured silk have been successfully developed by Indian researchers by feeding them dyed mulberry leaves.

For some 5,000 years, cultivated silkworms have been spinning white silk fibres destined for use in the finest clothing. Current dyeing practices produce wastewater that contains potentially harmful toxins, so scientists are turning to a "greener" dyeing method in which they coax coloured fibres from the caterpillars by feeding them dyed leaves.