The objectives of Dr Byrne's visit to Australia were: 1.

The recent pioneering attempts of several cotton growers to produce organic cotton presents an opportunity to monitor pest populations in the absence of synthetic insecticides.

Objectives To continue the development and validation of a series of micro-computer based decision support packages (initially hydroLOGIC and entomoLOGIC) under the generic name CottonLOGIC.,

This project supports the maintenance of fibre testing facilities at the Australian Cotton Research Institute.

A number of laboratory experiments have been run since 1989 to address the area of distribution variation.

I have prepared these notes for our meeting of July 2S.

This project commenced on the 1st July, 1993. Since that time the following has occurred

The work has identified condensed tannin (CT) as occurring in cottonseed hulls but not in cottonseed kernels. Approximately 20% of the CT in cottonseed hulls is extractable and 80% is bound to protein and fibre.

The anisotropic nature of the soil continuum does not lend itself to classification schemes constructed as many are by predetermined hierachical classes.

A new glasshouse was constructed at Narrabri to enable an expansion of the backcrossing of genetically engineered characters into CSIRO cotton varieties.

Nitrification inhibitors were successfully used to improve the recovery of fertilizer N in the irrigated cotton-growing system.

The aim of the project, to enable cotton to be grown in experiments in the disciplines of breeding, agronomy and entomology by the CSIRO Cotton Research Unit at the Australian Cotton Research Institute, has been met O

In order to obtain information of its environmental fate under conditions of use in the Australian cotton industry, this major study was initiated in 1990-91.

To make the OZCOT cotton crop simulation model more robust and versatile; enabling it to be used for decision support in a broader range of applications and situations. This involved five specific objectives: 1.

The funds requested in the application were for Dr Christian to spend 6 weeks in the laboratory of Dr Art Mcintosh and Dr Carlo lgnoffo in Columbia Missouri, working on aspects of the project "Genetic Engineering

Report on Overseas Travel, June-July 1994 Helen McFadden

This project followed on from the production of the SOILpak manual (A soil management package for cracking clays).

OBJECTIVES OF VISIT: (i) To attend and present a paper and a poster at the Sixth International Verticillium Symposium, Dead Sea Israel.

A review of findings presented at the 12th Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health

Travel grant: 9th Biennial Conference Australasian Plant Pathology Society