Implications for local provenance seed selection and landscape restoration

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Vasinfectum (Fov) is considered the most destructive pathogen of cotton in Australia. In this study, BC3 progenies of chromosome addition lines between G.

Helicoverpa spp remain the most important pest in the Australian cotton industry. They are resistant to most of the insecticides used by the industry.

Cotton fibres, or lint, are very long single cells containing almost pure cellulose. The fibres develop in the weeks after flowering from single cells on the surface of the young seed.

The disease black root rot (BRR) is caused by the soil born fungal pathogen Thielaviopsis basicola. This fungus has a broad host range, infecting 137 species, with a worldwide distribution (Honeess, 1994).