The 2012 3 Cotton Pest Management Guide your handbook to cotton industry best practice for pest, weeds, diseases, biosecurity and spray application.

In Australian agro-ecosystems pest dynamics are changing, synthetic insecticides production are declining and there is evidence of increasing pest resistance or tolerance to transgenic plants.

The Australian cotton industry is now heavily reliant on genetically engineered Bt cotton for the control of Helicoverpa spp. and other moth pests.

The Australian cotton industry has benefited greatly from the introduction of the transgenic Bolgard II cotton.

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