Floodplains along river systems of the northern Murray-Darling Basin contain a diversity of wetland habitats, maintained through highly variable patterns of flood inundation.

Cotton is one of many agricultural industries heavily reliant on nitrogenous fertilizers and water storages to maintain high levels of production.

This forum is recognised as the main conference for cotton research. The conference consists

of four days of individual reports, panel discussions, hands-on workshops and seminars about

Microsatellite data collected over many of the grain growing regions of eastern Australia from December 2002 through to May 2005, has detected and described variable gene-flow years (i.e.

Two “Spray Drift Workshops” were held at Norwin Hall and St Ruth Hall on the 5th and 6th of January respectively.

The purpose of the travel was to present a talk entitled “Wet Roots? High resolution groundwater depth prediction in the Bourke Irrigation District” at the 9th international River Symposium in Brisbane.

I believe both reinform nematodes and Fusarium (race 4) have the characteristics that could

potentially, affect the Australian cotton industry if they were to be introduced to Australia. There

Green mirids (Creontiades dilutus) have emerged as a significant problem in commercial Bt-cotton crops, especially in Bollgard II crops.

Sarah Hood:This project provided for the engagement of a Consultant, Sarah Hood, to undertake an interim role of the Cotton Industry Development Extension Officerss in the St. George-Dirranbandi irrigation area.

Transgenic (Bt) cotton varieties provide a substantial basis for economically and environmentally sustainable insect pest management within the Australian cotton industry.

The offering of diagnostic services in the determination of species identification and Trichogramma parasitism in Helicoverpa eggs provided submitters with valuable insight into the distribution and prevalence of H.

The ARLP, like the Rural Research and Development

Corporations is one of Australian agriculture's great

success stories. It works because it is a partnership,

The subject of this thesis "The effect of cereal stubble on Helicoverpa armigera(Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) activity in early season cotton(Gossypium spp.)" is a direct result of consultation with the

The 13th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference was held in Christchurch NZ, April 18-21. This

is the primary conference relating to plant breeding activities in Australia and New Zealand and

The CRDC project funds for “Operational Costs for Cotton Experiments” are used to fund cotton experimental trials at the Australian Cotton Research Institute (ACRI).

The project provided travel funding to assist enable six Australian scientists who have undertaken extensive research on pesticides on behalf of the cotton industry to participate in the Pacifichem 2005 Symposium 225,

WEEDpak, the Integrated Weed Management Guide for the Australian cotton industry was launched in 2002 in response to a rapidly changing weed management climate in the industry with the introduction of transgenic, Roun

The following Report covers my participation in a series of meetings at

Bremen, Germany, in late March 2006 - including;

20.3.06; CSITC *small technical group' meeting

This project has part funded field operation costs charged by DPI to CSIRO for experiments on ACRI at Narrabri in 2005/06.

Travel to the USA to attend the Fusarium 2005 workshop at Kansas State University, and to accompany representatives of the Australian cotton industry on a cotton disease study tour of the USA.