Fusarium wilt continues to be an important constraint to sustainable cotton production. This project had a number of objectives to obtain data to improve the management of this disease.

A major research effort over the last 13 years by researchers from DPI&F in collaboration with other agencies has sought to understand what strains of the pathogen are present, monitor the distribution of the path

Fusarium wilt is considered by many growers, ginners, consultants and other industry personnel as the most important constraint to sustainable cotton production to have developed in recent years.

2. List the project objectives and the extent to which these have been achieved., 1. Monitor the diversity and distribution of strains of Fov in cotton growing areas in Australia.

The paper 'Detection, persistence and control of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinifectum in cotton seed