Enhancing the Efficiency of Bt Refuge Crops within a Changing Cotton Environment

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

The Technology Transfer Project has had the responsibility of providing a public face for the Cotton Catchment Communities CRC. It promoted the cotton, NRM and community research industry and the wider public.

Diseases of Cotton X

Darlington Point in 1964 and the CSIRO conducted a cotton breeding program for many years at Griffith. Cotton was the first row crop grown on Ravensworth Station at Hay and Kooba Station at Darlington Point.