6th Pacific Rim Conference, held at the Fairmount Empress Hotel, Victoria, BC, Canada from

the 30th of October to the 3rd of November 2005.

The poster, 'Evaluation of border cell number and Cry protein expression from root tips of

Gossypium hirsutum(Oliver G. G. Knox and Gupta V. S. R. Vadakattu), was well received and

generated plenty of interest amongst the 90 attending delegates as well as some interesting

debate. The poster presentation has been converted to a short paper for inclusion in

the conterence proceedings, due for publication April 2006.