During the period May 2001 - June 2002 members of the weeds focus team, headed by the co-ordinating editor Dr Stephen Johnson, have worked to produce WEEDpak.

Genetic engineering techniques allow the transfer of novel genetic material from one organism to another and hence has the potential to augment classical plant breeding techniques by extending the gene pool accessible

Attendance to present an invited paper in the symposium "Evolution of Insecticide Resistance" on genetics of resistance in Helicoverpa at the XXI International Congress of Entomology.

Black root rot is caused by the soil borne fungus Thielaviopsis basicola, which

causes disease in over 137 species of plants (Honess at a1. , 1994). T basicola

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Verticillium wilt was the most widespread

and important disease of cotton in Australia. The widespread adoption of

Agricultural aircraft are of great importance to the Australian cotton industry. Specialised

With the creation of the CRC for Sustainable Cotton Production, weeds

research took focus to the development of sustainable, low input, cotton weed management systems for low weed pressure situations.

For many years the insect pest management research conducted by the Entomology Team at QDPI Farming Systems Institute, Toowoomba has relied on makeshift spray equipment for the application of pesticides.

The 1997-98 cropping season in southern Queensland was characterised by a severe, sustained and damaging outbreak of H. armigera. This situation arose as a result of a combination of factors.

The efficacy of Bt cotton plants against field populations of Hencove, :po grinigero has not been consistent over the growing season.

Murata Vortex Spinning is a spinning technology of the future. It differs from previous air-jet spinning in that it can spin 100% Upland length cotton at speeds of up to 400 m/min.

Five trial results detailed in Final Report.

The need and motivation for a workshop on modelling water movement in cracking soils arose out of the National Program on Irrigation and Development(NPIRD) Project DAN11,

To further develop rural and regional Australia through challenging, learning and growing our leadership skills.

Ultra narrow row (UNR) cotton, is cotton with row spacings of 50 cm or less.

The project compared the droplet spectrum (by volume) emitted by a RAD aerial rotary atomiser mounted on a standard bracket, a RAD atomiser mounted on a extra long (XL) bracket and a Micronair AU5OOO nozzle mounted in

One aspect of the desire to improve the quality of the Australian cotton crop is to introduce new fibre quality instrumentation to supplement the current Mircronaire measurement.

DNA based diagnostics has become increasingly utilised in the agriculture sector both in the diagnosis of pathogens and pests as well as in molecular marker assisted breeding.

The silverleaf whitefly (SLW) was first discovered in Australia in 1994. At the

Quantitative Bt ELISA assays have only recently become available as a research

tool. This research will not only assist cotton breeders in identifying lines which possess