With CRDC permission, the travel award was transferred from Dr Skerritt to Ms A Hill, the diagnostics project leader; there was, however, not a change in itinerary.

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

The inaugural Australian Rural Leadership Program was conducted during 1993 and 1994.The rationale for this innovative concept was to form a strong bond between the 30participants, enrich their leadership capabilities

Project Objective: To provide the basis for improved crop and soil management in dryland cotton production systems by: 1. monitoring on-farm performance of cotton-based dryland cropping systems; 2.

Objectives of visit: To attend the 13th Conference of the International Soil Tillage Research Organization (ISTRO) and present paper entitled "Effect of soil preparation method and cotton-based cropping system on

In Australia, management of cotton pests is insecticide based.

The comparative advantage1 of cotton production was examined for three production systems in the United States and four production systems within Australia.

A paper was presented at the fourth international Trichogramma and other egg parasitoid conference titled 'Evaluating egg parasitoids for integrated pest management in Australian raingrown cotton.' Highlight

A growth disorder of cotton has been observed in irrigated cracking clay soils in fields at Galathera Creek, north of the Australian Cotton Research Institute (ACRI) for several years.

Two fields of cotton on two nearby farms in the Macquarie Valley of NSW which had different histories of weed management were studied to determine if weed seeds were being introduced via irrigation water.

This project aimed to continue the steady improvements in developing improved cotton varieties adapted to Australian growing conditions and markets

This report arises from a scoping brief presented to the author on 19th May 1995.

Frontiers of Population Ecology Meeting program and abstracts

In March 1995 I attended two Keystone Symposia, "Frontiers of Plant Morphogenesis" and "Signal Transduction in Plants", held concurrently at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Cotton fibres are differentiated from single ovule epidermal cells and grow synchronously, initiating at about the time of anthesis.

The cotton plant has two main sets of traits that contribute to its resistance to pests: (1) chemical (e.g. gossypol) and morphological defences (e.g. okra-leaf) and (2) compensatory mechanisms for regrowth (e.g.

Annual Report 1994-1995

This report summarises the findings from the CRDC funded project "Managing soils to avoid compaction problems in cotton growing". The project ran from 1989/90 to 1991192.

OBJECTIVES: 1. To study sampling and control practices for mirlds in irrigated and dryland cotton.

Project Objectives: Part A: (i) To study the effect of wet/dry cycles with drying by evaporation alone in ameliorating degraded furrows in retained hill cotton (at the Fressor site).