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

Verticillium wilt and Fusarium wilt, vascular diseases caused by the soil-borne fungal pathogens Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporumf.sp vasinfectum, respectively, are among the most important diseases of cott

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.

Sustainability in any farming system is dependent upon a number of interacting factors which include climate, soil quality, plant nutrition, management, weed and disease incidence, and economic factors (Greenland and

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.