CSIRO has established an effective breeding program that continues to deliver high yielding and high performing varieties containing transgenic traits for more sustainable and profitable insect and weed control.

Although cotton farming is a major industry in the Namoi Valley, the status of on farm native vegetation and bird life is poorly understood.

With the advent of Bt cotton, mirids have become more of a pest in cotton and are attracting a number of insecticide applications.

The commonly used Micronaire value for cotton is related to both fibre fineness and

maturity. 'RDC and the CCC CRC have been funding work at CSIRO Textile and Fibre

Summer Scholarship Report - Diurnal movement of mirids in response to lynx spiders

1) The fit of new insecticides into integrated pest management. Selection of insecticides can have a

big influence on both control of the target pest as well as on beneficials, and the risk of secondary

Within highly mechanised agricultural productions systems such as the Australian cotton industry, operational energy inputs represent a significant cost to growers.

Excess moisture on the crop before harvest can have detrimental effects on the

modern harvest process in terms of picking efficiency and the ability to store seedcotton

Deep drainage (DD) - water that passes beyond the root zone - can be an important

contributor in terms of recharging ground water as well as leaching salts from the root

There are many critical issues facing the cotton industry, ranging from drought and water supply; yield and profitability; fibre quality and export price; nutrition; sustainability-catchment management, and BMP implem

Thielaviopsis basicola, a phytopathogenic filamentous fungus, is the causative agent of black root rot in a variety of host plants, including the economically important crop, cotton.

Black root rot is a recognised threat to the cotton industry, yet current management strategies are insufficient for disease control.

A project investigating the molecular and histological effects of silicon application on cotton infected with Fov was inspired by promising preliminary results obtained by Dr Linda Smith (QPl&F) in glasshouse and

Assessing changes in resource conditions is seen as an essential element for evaluating the impact of public and private investment in natural resource management(NRM) outcomes.

Conducting on-farm Trials

An explaination of groundwater modelling in Australia

A list of misconconceptions and an explainationabout groundwater

Groundwater is the term referring to water that occurs under the ground.Groundwater is a vast and slow moving resource that greatly exceeds the volume of other available freshwater sources.

The average amount of time a watermolecule spends at a particularstage during its journey throughthe hydrologic cycle is known as theresidence time.

Measuring water quality and levels. What to monitor ΓWhat equipment is needed Γ How often to monitor Γ What to do with the data Γ What is a piezometer Γ How much does monitoring cost Γ