Historically, the wild Australian Gossypium species have played a minor role in cotton breeding.

Most pest management practitioners agree that our current approaches are not sustainable and integrated pest management (IPM) is the way of the future.

In this paper we present data on the effects of N fertilizer application to a wheat rotation crop on soil strength, nutrient uptake by the following cotton crop and cotton lint yields which were obtained from two stud

European Carp (Cyprinus carpio) or as it should be called carp, has been present in Australia for more than 130 years.Various strains (at least 4) are present in Australia with the strain &quote;Boolara&quote;

The National Farmers' Federation represents a substantial proportion of Australia's 120,000 farming operations around the country, and those farmers represent just about every sector of the rural indus

This paper reports the results of an experiment to quantify the fruiting characteristics of eight cotton varieties to enable crop simulation models to more accurately reflect yield and maturity of current varieties.

Australian cotton production relies heavily on insecticides for the control of the major pests, Helicoverpa spp. , mites and sucking insects (Fitt 1994).

The Australian cotton industry has been practising curative conventional insecticide resistance management for thirteen years now.

Microplitis demolitor (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a mid to late season parasitoid of Helicoverpa spp. larvae. Female M. demolitor prefer to lay eggs in second instar larvae.

Properly controlling the cotton ginning process increases fiber yields and monetary returns to the cotton farmer, improves fiber length distribution, and reduces short fibers, neps and seed-coat fragments.

High yields (> 11 b/ha) were achieved with varieties adapted to hot arid growing conditions.

Where does the Australian cotton industry see itself in ten years time? What challenges will it face? How will it address those challenges?

Creation of lagoons or wetlands. River stabilization techniques. On farm reafforestation. The benefits and disadvantages of these to the landholder and to the environment.

The cotton fields are considered to be a biologically 'sterile' environment because of the constant use of pesticides and herbicides, however little work has been done to document the potential benefit

B-type Bemisia tabaci, known commonly as the 'silver leaf white fly' is in Australia and becoming more widespread. The silver leaf whitefly was first detected in Australia in October 1994.

At Tamworth, we have been monitoring H. armigera for carbamate resistance [thiodicarb (Larvin) and methomyl (Lannate, Nudrin) resistance since 1982. Thiodicarb resistance was first diagnosed in H.

Oils having very high levels of oleic acid have superior stability and are valuable for frying and other high temperature applications.

This talk is heavily dependant on slides, so the following 1s really only a &quote;background&quote; paper.

Rapid changes in cotton farming practices and the introduction of new synthetic insecticides and control strategies over the last 10-15 years are likely to have led to significant changes in the species diversity and

The question for plant breeders is how do we set priority in a breeding program which meet the fibre quality needs of everyone in the market place while developing competitive high yielding varieties? Fibre qu