Historically, the wild Australian Gossypium species have played a minor role in cotton breeding.

In developing a water management plan, f m water use efficiency can be broken down into three segments - plant, agronomic and irrigation efficiency.

High yields (> 11 b/ha) were achieved with varieties adapted to hot arid growing conditions.

The 1995/96 season saw the first occasion when CSIRO varieties with the Monsanto Ingard gene were tested on commercial farms. This article presents a summary of those trials.

Over the last six or seven years, seasonal forecasts provided by the Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Centre have been based on statistical relationships between rainfall and the EI Nino-Southern Oscil

Tile green mirid, Creontiades dilutus (Stal) is one of the early season pests of cotton.

We introduce a new idea, that recovery capacity is an important trait in cotton resistance to insect damage.

This talk is heavily dependant on slides, so the following 1s really only a &quote;background&quote; paper.

Cotton fibres are differentiated from single cells of the outer epidermis of ovules and originate at, or soon after, anthesis (Ramsey and Berlin, 1976).

Cotton fibres are differentiated from single cells of the outer epidermis of ovules and originate at, or soon after, anthesis (Ramsey and Berlin, 1976).

Cotton plants expressing the CrylAc toxin from Bt are near to commercial release.

Since 1992, CSRO Cotton Research Unit has conducted large scale insect management trials in the upper and lower Namoi Valley.

Crop rotations, including wheat and sorghum, can provide stubble cover to protectthe soil while cotton is establishing.

Australia's continued expansion in raw cotton production is directly dependent on the industry's ability to market its product to overseas buyers.

Controlling heliothine caterpillars presents an ever greater challenge for the Australian cotton industry.

Spider mites are world-wide pests of a variety of crops.

This is a Cotton Research and Development Corporation funded three year project toconsider the follong areas and address the issues developed below.Aims:To continue and develop the work begun in the existing project w

Controlling heliothine caterpillars presents an ever greater challenge for the Australian cotton industry.

The imminent release of transgenic cotton brings with it the need for some changes in production techniques to provide effective refuges as part of the pre-emptive resistance management strategy (see papers by Fitt an

In Australia the primary pesticide for control of heliothis in cotton is the organochlorine endosulfan.