International Collaborations between Australia and the United States in Cotton Disease Management: Comparison of isolation methods and media for quantifying Verticillium dahliae populations in soil.

This international travel scholarship enabled a researcher from the United States who had been working collaboratively with an Australian researcher to visit Australia and attend the 2018 FUSCOM Conference , the Australasian Soilborne Diseases Symposium and visit a number of industry sites in Australia. At the Australasian Soilborne Diseases Symposium, the visiting researcher presented a poster highlighting the findings from our collaborative study on Verticillium dahliae inoculum levels and detection methods.

The funding enabled a networking opportunity for Australian researchers to engage with current research findings from cotton growing areas in the USA adn established a firm collaborative relationship for future research publications.