To provide adequate access to computing facilities for SIRATAC, Trichogramma and Heliothis Ecology/Modelling projects at the Toowoomba Laboratory

Australian Insecticide resistance mangement Strategy

The project DAN 33L involved studies of insecticide resistance in the major cotton pests Helicoverpa armigera and Helicovera. punctigera.

The use of pyrethroid insecticides on Helicoverpa armigera susceptible crops has been restricted to only 6 weeks each summer since 1983, when resistance to pyrethroids was diagnosed.

Summary of Key Results 1 Most promising techniques for use by advisory staff in the field are penetrometers and root morphological characteristics. 2 Soil smearing may not have significant effects on plant growth.

This project continued the major study of waterlogging on heavy clay soils after furrow irrigation or heavy rainfall.

The aim of the project was to test the feasibility of using DNA probes to enumerate microorganisms involved in the degradation .of herbicides in soil.

This project was concerned with providing fibre quality data on research, especially breeding, samples. It was run by the Division of Textile Industry at Geelong, Victoria.

This project continued the major study of waterlogging on heavy clay soils after furrow irrigation or heavy rainfall.

The VAX cluster at Myall Vale is an important and essential facility for research and for the use of SIRA TAC by the industry.

The new truck for plant breeding use has been purchased.

Field work was conducted over the 1988/89 and 1989/90 cotton growing seasons in the Central Highlands of Queensland. Pheromone dispensers, specially formulated for P.

This study determined the genetic basis of pyrethroid resistance in Heliothis annigera and characterised those factors that lead to cyclical fluctuations in the frequency of resistance in field populations.

The Australian Cotton Foundation (ACF) was established in 1973 to promote cotton and the Australian industry. It was also seen as the appropriate body for internal education and industry representation.

Many cotton growers are asking Why can't Australian cotton mills spin more cotton?" Many hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton are imported into Australia as finished yarns and fabrics - why can't th

To better understand the new Research and Development Corporation I feel it would be appropriate to review cotton research historical I y, as background lo the soon to be created corporation.

Selection of the area of irrigated cotton to plant is a perennial problem.

The title of this discussion has a rather ominous ring to it as far as I am concerned.

Very few economists are employed in Australian cotton research.

Ecological genetics is the study of genetic changes and how these are influenced by the biological parameters of a species.