2002 Final Reports

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Cloning genes to manipulate cotton fibre cellulose production for improved fibre traits

Burn, Joanne (Australian National University, 2002-06-30)

Cellulose is a crystalline B-I, 4 glucan found in all higher plants and comprises over 90% of the dry matter of the mature cotton fibre.

Silverleaf Whitefly Projects

(Department Of Primary Industries, Queensland, 2002-06-30)

CRDC document 'Triple Bottom Line Highlights' indicates the following successes pertaining to insect management, especially the adoption of IPM and AWM:

Measuring Cotton Fibre Fineness and Maturity using the Sirolan-Laserscan

Naylor, Geoffrey (CSIRO Textile And Fibre Technology, 2002-06-30)

The cornmonly used Micronaire value for cotton is related to both fibre fineness and maturity. There is a need for a new measurement technique to separate these.

Travel - Sarah Mansfield: First international symposium on biological control of anthropods, Hawaii, USA.

Mansfield, Sarah (CSIRO Entomology, 2002-06-30)

This symposium was the first conference held specifically for biological control of arthropods and follows the successful model of four-yearly symposia for biological control of weeds.

Relationship between pesticides in Passive Samplers to Riverwater Concentrations and Macroinvertebrate Populations

Leonard, Alex (University Of Technology, Sydney, 2002-06-30)

in previous studies we have indicated a relationship between a decline in macro-invertebrate population densities and riverine endosulfan concentrations measured using passive samplers (Hyne et al.