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It has now been 11 years since the introduction of the Insecticide Resistance Management Strategy in the 1983/84 season.

Rainfed or dryland cotton grown in the 550 to 600 mm. per year rainfall regions of northern N.S.W. and southern Qld. is a profitable summer crop alternative.

Transgenic cottons expressing the crystal protein toxin genes from the bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have progressed to the field testing stage and may soon become part of the Australian cotton production sce

CSD conducts large scale variety trials in all the cotton growing districts each season. It is well known that variety performance often differs markedly from season to season.

The first Australian cloud seeding experiment was conducted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in February 1947.

At the 1992 Australian Cotton Research Conference, we reported on field trials of a prototype Heliothis ID kit that were held during the 1991-92 growing season (Trowell et al., 1992).

Raingrown cotton requires a considerable financial outlay hence many farmers seek to reduce their exposure or to 'hedge their bets' by planting in skip row configurations.

Competition for scarce water resources in northern inland New South Wales has raised concerns among irrigations about the specification of water property rights and the efficiency of use of water resources within and

This is a new project that aims to develop diagnostic molecular probes for the most threatening insecticide resistance mechanisms in Australian H. armigera

The performance of CSIRO varieties and new lines are evaluated each year in a series of regional trials, known as the Australian Cotton Cultivar Trial (ACCD.

The aim of this research is to define the best rotation/management combination whereby yields and quality of subsequent cotton crops can be maximized and sustained over the long-term.

Insecticide resistance continues to be a major problem for the cotton grower. It also is the focus of much of the research into the use and management of transgenic plants.

Australian Rainfed Cotton has been grown with startling results over the last 10 - 15 years.

In 1993 a series of experiments were established in the Namoi and Macquarie valleys to study the effects and benefits of rotation crops for subsequent cotton crops.

Resistance to some carbamate insecticides ( methomyl and carbaryl) in H. armigera is has been known since 1983. But at that time no resistance to thiodicarb (also a carbamate) was identified.

Simulations were run to test the sensitivity of OZCOT to varietal differences in developmental characteristics known to influence fruiting dynamics in cotton.

The distinctive dark glands covering most of the aelial parts of the cotton plant are well known to growers.

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