It is well-recognised that the pest status of Helicoverpa spp.

CRDC 2015/16 Summer Scholarships (S/S ) Purpose- Strategic Plan Targets 1.Farmers 2. Industry 3.Customers 4. People 5.Performance Summer Scholarship Programme - 8 weeks

There are significant resources available to cotton growers and their consultants about management options for specific weeds, efficient ways to utilise alternative control tactics such as cultivation or double knocks

The Australian Cotton Industry is now in the midst of dealing with both glyphosate resistant and tolerant weeds in the cotton system.

Helicoverpa punctigera, along with Helicoverpa armigera, are major pests in Australian cotton.

The Australian cotton industry depends heavily on genetically engineered Bt cotton (currently in the form of Bollgard II®) which provides resistance to the key pests of cotton, larvae of the moths Helicoverpa armigera

Even though large scale planting of Bt cotton started a decade ago, consequences on a landscape-scale have hardly been studied. Helicoverpa armigera and H.

Travel to the USDA Kika De La Garcia Agricultural Research Centre at Weslaco in South

West Texas. This is an area of mixed cropping that includes cotton, sugarcane, soybean, corn,

Insects can respond to selection pressure by mobilising new defence mechanisms.

In Bollgard® II cotton 2-5 sprays are required to manage mirid and stinkbugs every season.

Prof. Dr. Silvia Dorn, Professor of Applied Entomology from ETH Zurich in Switzerland was on a scientific exchange to the Australian Cotton Research Institute (ACRI) in Narrabri from 5 – 12 February 2011.

Insecticide resistance represents one of the most significant limitations to successful pest control and economic production in Australian cotton industry.

Thielaviopsis basicola is a hemibiotroph fungus that causes black root rot disease in diverse plants with significant impact on cotton production in Australia. To elucidate how T.

H. armigera is one of the major pests faced by the Australian cotton industry.

‘Cotton Fusarium Wilt Management’, had a number of objectives to obtain data to improve the management of this disease.

Silverleaf whitefly (SLW), Bemisia tabaci B biotype (Gennadius), is a major insect pest of cotton and horticultural industries.

Expectations for industries to manage resources in a sustainable manner raise the question of how industries can demonstrate their sustainability credentials.

Fusarium oxysporum f.sp vasinfectum (FOV) has merged as a very serious pathogen of cotton, which apparently lacks good sources of endogenous resistance to Fusarium wilt.

Following the introduction of transgenic, herbicide tolerant varieties, the Australian

cotton industry has developed glyphosate-centric weed management systems which

The major output from this trip was to disseminate my latest research results to peers by presenting a spoken paper entitled "Frequency and characteristics of alleles conferring resistance to the Bt toxin Cry2Ab