Modern molecular genetic techniques are used to examine Helicove1pa armigera for variation amongst individuals from different geographical locations around Australia.

In July 1994 the International Society of Soil Science held its 15th Congress in Acapulco, Mexico. Approximately 1800 ISSS members from almost 90 nations attended.

The aim of this book is to help cotton growers, field consultants and agronomists correctly identify the wide range of pests and beneficials that can be found in the crops they manage.

This project has supported a wide range of cotton programs based at Narrabri covering all CRDC funded projects during this period.

Capacity Sharing is an institutional arrangement and property rights structure for allocating water among multiple users of water resource systems which include storage reservoirs.

The aims of this trip were to initiate research on HaSV RNA designed to improve our ability to express insect viral genes in transgenic cotton, and to attend two important conferences relevant to the long-term biologi

Aim of Travel: To participate in the Vlth International Co11oquium on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control. The Colloquium also incorporated the Second International Conference on Bacillus thuringiensis

From this visit I gained: 1. A good overview of the state of agricultural soil mechanics worldwide. I was struck by the lack of direction and novelty in some of the work in this field.

In Australia, management of cotton pests is insecticide based.

The objective of this study was to examine the distribution of tyre imposed stresses, soil displacements and soil mechanical properties as function of the soil surface geometry.

This study was initiated to quantify the impact of those predators commonly found in Australian cotton fields and thereby reveal the importance of the various predatory species in Helicoverpa pest management.

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.

Commissioned in November 1994, it was funded equally by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) and Sainty and Associates with a budget of $47 000 and the following work was undertaken: 1.

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

In March 1995 the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) asked the Centre for International Economics to prepare a report on the cotton industry and its economic impact.

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

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

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

Frontiers of Population Ecology Meeting program and abstracts