Despite the great potential for increasing cotton productivity through the genetic engineering of fibre development, little progress has so far been made in this area.

In a cool, wet season when conditions are favourable for the Verticillium dahliae fungal pathogen, Verticillium wilt disease can cost the Australian cotton industry millions of dollars in lost production.

Soil fauna have generally remained an 'unseen' resource to Australian cotton growers.

The CSIRO breeding program at the Australian Cotton Research Institute at Narrabri aims to develop locally adapted varieties for use by Australian farmers, The program has been very successful in developing varieties

The commercial release in Australia, in 1996, of transgenic cotton containing the Cry1Ac gene of Bacillus thruingiensis Berliner var.

Fusarium wilt is a destructive disease of cotton which occurs in many cotton growing areas of the world, including; south-eastern USA, Egypt, Tanzania and China.

Knowledge of the quantity of water draining below the root-zone is necessary in order to maximise and ensure sustainable water use, particularly when surface water is applied for irrigated agricultural production.

The CSIRO Cotton Cultivar Trial(CCT) has been run cooperatively by CSIRO and DPIQ for 24 years and is used as the last stage in our breeding line evaluation.

Dryland cotton production is an important component of cropping systems in the northern grain belt.

The term &quote;equity&quote; in the context of natural resource management refers to a sense of fairness in the allocation of the resource to users' Fairness in the meaning that the spectrum of resour

The relationship between early season insecticide use and later outbreaks of aphids was investigated in three field experiments.

CSIRO has had a successful cotton breeding program for over 20 years. In 1996, more than 90% of Australia's cotton was sown to varieties derived from the CSRO breeding program.

Residues of agricultural chemicals in soil and run-off water are a major cause for concern in cotton production.

The major focus of the Australian cotton industry for pest management is to reduce the dependence on synthetic insecticides.

We have carried out one season of experiments on plant growth regulators that have not been used commercially in the Australian industry before (Glycinebetaine, Gibberellic acid and PGR TV) and compared these to Pix.

When breeders cross two cotton varieties together there are millions of potential new combinations of genes that are generated in the progeny from the two parent plants.

Scepticism on the applicability of models is not due to their rarity nor lack of exposure.

On May 20 19/8, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that there has been a very large increase in the area of cotton production in Queensland with cotton for ginning increasing from 15 tons in 19/7 to 55 tons in 19/8.

Groundwater is water that has drained through the soil and accumulated at depth within the deeper subsoil or in bedrock.

Cotton-trash and feedlot-manure has been processed by composting worms over three months to produce vermicompost, an organic residue reputed to improve soil conditions for plant growth.