Following extensive discussions since 2010, CRDC agreed to provide seed funding for a Centre for Biopesticides and Semiochemicals, to be developed by researchers from NSW Department of Primary Industry(DPI), the Unive

This project aimed to provide ecological information on an important pest species to underpin strategies for resistance management in Bt cotton.

Issue being addressed Australian cotton farmers have achieved substantial reductions in insecticide use from their adoption of GM technology to control Helicoverpa spp.

The CRDC-funded project, -Ecology of Helicoverpa punctigera revisited: implications for Bt resistance-, followed our inland trip in May 2009 to determine the extent of winter breeding of the native budworm, Helicoverp

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