The salts of many essential plant nutrients are soluble in water and may be applied to plant leaves directly as a foliar fertiliser.

Transgenic cotton has proved to be valued by Australian cotton growers and over 80% of all cotton grown is Bollgard II.

This PhD project aims to determine the mechanisms, by which soil sodicity impacts on the uptake of nutrients and growth of cotton crops, in order that soil sodium levels can be factored into crop nutritional managemen

CSIRO Plant lndustry's Cotton Management Support Systems Team (CMSST) develops and

delivers decision support systems (DSS) to improve the profitability and sustainability of

Despite its widespread occurrence, the genetics of fusarium wilt resistance in cotton has still not been clearly elucidated.