This Travel sponsorship suuported Dr Sharwood to travel to Lubbock Texas USA to meet with Dr Paxton Payton and Dr James Mahan at the USDA-ARS to begin collaborative research to determine the interactive effects of water deficit and elevated temperature with elevated [COi) on cotton growth and physiology, and attend the Plant Biology 2015 meeting taking place at Minneapolis, Minnesota United States. Dr Sharwood presented project research results arising from the Science and Innovation Award project, along with subsequent follow up experiments.