The following Report covers my participation in a series of meetings at

Bremen, Germany, in late March 2006 - including;

20.3.06; CSITC *small technical group' meeting

Despite the long history of cotton production and research, little is known about the genes that control the initiation and growth of the cells on the outer surface of the seed that become fibres.

Transgenic (Bt) cotton varieties provide a substantial basis for economically and environmentally sustainable insect pest management within the Australian cotton industry.

Floodplains along river systems of the northern Murray-Darling Basin contain a diversity of wetland habitats, maintained through highly variable patterns of flood inundation.

This report covers the Border Rivers, Moonie and Lower Balonne catchments in the Queensland

Murray Darling Committee, Inc. , (QMDC) management area with the focus of determining priority

Travel to the USA to attend the Fusarium 2005 workshop at Kansas State University, and to accompany representatives of the Australian cotton industry on a cotton disease study tour of the USA.

The offering of diagnostic services in the determination of species identification and Trichogramma parasitism in Helicoverpa eggs provided submitters with valuable insight into the distribution and prevalence of H.

Cotton fibres are differentiated single cells, originating from the epidermal layer of

the cotton ovule. Cotton fibre quality is determined by its length, strength and

Water allocation and access arrangements affect the livelihoods and well-being of a diverse range of water users, including irrigators and the environment increasing pressures on surface and groundwater resources have

An efficient and world standard computing system at ACRI has benefited all research

programs through their use in data processing, storage, statistical analysis, simulation

This report presents the results of a successful collaboration between Rod Mahon and Karen Olsen (CSIRO Entomology) and Dr David Heckel (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany).

This project focused on developing and testing best management options for key pests in Bollgard®II and conventional cotton.

This project has part funded field operation costs charged by DPI to CSIRO for experiments on ACRI at Narrabri in 2005/06.

Two “Spray Drift Workshops” were held at Norwin Hall and St Ruth Hall on the 5th and 6th of January respectively.

The commonly used Micronaire value for cotton is related to both fibre fineness (weight per unit length) and maturity. There is a need for a new measurement technique to separate these.

I believe both reinform nematodes and Fusarium (race 4) have the characteristics that could

potentially, affect the Australian cotton industry if they were to be introduced to Australia. There

The Australian cotton industry has had in place since 1997 a voluntary environmental

management system – its Best Management Practice (BMP) Program – that has successfully

This project has part funded maintenance of HVI900 and FMT3 cotton fibre testing instruments in CSIRO’s fibre testing laboratory at ACRI for the 2005/06 season.

There is currently a shortage of irrigation water available for cotton production in Australia due to recent climatic and legislative conditions.

A project was funded by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation and conducted by the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture to support the industry in the continuing successful uptake of Centre Pivots