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Micro clonal Technology, a cutting-edge approach, is being used to overcome obstacles in various propagation techniques and to produce mulberry saplings on a large scale quickly. The present study was to characterize nutritional quality of clones under field conditions. The 60DAP-AC (V1) mini clones had registered significantly higher chlorophyll-a (1.85 mg/g), chlorophyll-b (0.76 mg/g), carotenoid (0.73 mg/g) contents and total chlorophyll composition (2.12mg/g) as compared to 90DAP-SC (V1) and MR2 transplanted on 60th day had recorded highest amount of chlorophyll-a (1.67 mg/g), chlorophyll-b (0.70 mg/g), carotenoid (0.62 mg/g) and total chlorophyll (1.81 mg/g) content. In comparison to the check, the leaves from the 60DAP-AC (V1) mini clones had 3.46 percent more N, 0.29 percent more P, and 1.67 percent more K content than the leaves from the 60DAP-AC (MR2) mini clones. As compared to control, the leaves collected from 60DAP-AC (V1) micro clones showed higher quantities of soluble protein (27.12 mg/g), total carbohydrate (18.52 mg/g), crude protein (20.15%), and total sugar (13.42%). The results will be a useful guide for efficient and sustainable nutritional management of mini cloned mulberry

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