2008 Final Reports

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Travel support for participants of the 07 Future Cotton Leaders Program

CRDC (CRDC, 2008-06-30)

Travel funding was provided to 11 Future Cotton Leader recipients to enable them to travle to various industry related meetings.

Supporting IPM for future cotton systems

Wilson, Lewis (CSIRO Plant Industry, 2008-06-30)

1) The fit of new insecticides into integrated pest management. Selection of insecticides can have a

big influence on both control of the target pest as well as on beneficials, and the risk of secondary

Desktop review of the use of polyacrylamide (PAM) in the Austrlian Cotton industry (Contingency)

Hood, Sarah (University Of Southern Queensland, 2008-06-30)

Polyacrylamide, commonly known as PAM, is a long-chain hydrocarbon of high molecular weight, synthesized from natural gas for a range of industrial and environmental use.

Travel Sponsorship to attend 4th World Cotton Conference, USA

Wang, Bo, Naylor, Geoff, Van Der Sluijs, Rene, Mahon, Rod, Baker, Geoff, Tann, Colin (CSIRO Textile And Fibre Technology, 2008-06-30)

As there was a considerable contingent of Australian delegates to this conference, this report will focus on the past harvest sessions with a particular emphasis on fibre quality and ginning.

Honours: Rebecca Forbes - Pathogenicity factors involved in T.basicola -cotton interactions (Contingency)

Forbes, Rebecca (University Of New England, 2008-06-30)

Thielaviopsis basicola, a phytopathogenic filamentous fungus, is the causative agent of black root rot in a variety of host plants, including the economically important crop, cotton.