The 2012 3 Cotton Pest Management Guide your handbook to cotton industry best practice for pest, weeds, diseases, biosecurity and spray application.

Enhancing the Efficiency of Bt Refuge Crops within a Changing Cotton Environment

The Australian cotton industry depends heavily on genetically engineered Bt cotton (currently in the form of Bollgard II®) which provides resistance to the key pests of cotton, larvae of the moths Helicoverpa armigera

In Australian agro-ecosystems pest dynamics are changing, synthetic insecticides production are declining and there is evidence of increasing pest resistance or tolerance to transgenic plants.

The Australian cotton industry is now heavily reliant on genetically engineered Bt cotton for the control of Helicoverpa spp. and other moth pests.