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Abstract:
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Papers organised under 10 broad themes : 1) area wide management and entomology - 2) farming systems & agronomy - 3) water balance, water management - 4) plant pathology - 5) cotton breeding - 6) cotton trade - 7) working with our communities - 8) new technology - 9) meeting the challenge - 10) the way ahead.
Area wide management and entomology -- Area-wide management of heliothis : results of current studies -- Cereal stubble and trap crops in Heliothis management -- An evaluation of lablab as a summer trap crop for heliothis, and nursery crop for beneficial arthropods, in dryland cotton -- How area wide management worked on my farm -- Bogabilla irrigation landcare group IPM program : background information for Boggabilla AWM -- Definition area wide management 1999 - 2000 -- IPM : sticking to the challenge -- undance -- IPM with two-gene cotton -- Genetics of BT resistance -- Monitoring susceptibilty to BT toxins in Australian helicoverpa species -- Resistance to Ingard cotton by the cotton bollworm, helicoverpa armigera -- Juvenile hormone esterase as trans
Farming systems & agronomy -- Farming systems using cereal stubble : a summary of current trial results and industry practices -- Techniques to reduce off-farm movement of soil, water, nutrients and pesticides -- The agronomy of complex farming systems -- Issues for ultra narrow row cotton in Australia : agronomy, machinery and ginning -- Improving phosphorus (P) fertiliser decisions for cotton -- Monitoring cotton nutrition -- Balanced fertilisation for optimising yield and quality of cotton in the Ord -
city and acidification rates of cotton soils from northern NSW.
Water balance, water management -- The science of water balance : why do we need to know? -- Land and water salinity : a threat or a reality? -- Addressing the issues of root zone salinity and deep drainage under irrigated cotton -- Use of a mobile EM sensing system for improved natural resource management at the fieldscale -- Managing water use efficiency on farms -- Water tight : whole farm water use efficiency : determining your own water security -- Waterlogging and its effect on cotton growth and yie
Plant pathology -- Integrated disease management : how are we doing? -- Management strategies for fusarium wilt of cotton -- DNA diagnostics for fusarium wilt of cotton -- Molecular biology approaches to understanding and controlling fusarium wilt in cotton -- Characterisation and mapping of the Xcm resistance locus in Australian cotton cultivars by the use of molecular marker techniques -- Molecular diagnosis of fungal pathogens in cotton -- Utilisation of disease resistance genes in cotton -- DNA marker
Cotton breeding -- CSIRO small scale variety trials for 1998/99 and 1999/2000 -- Three new CSIRO varieties -- Breeding for improved water use efficiency of cotton : a summary -- Development of nutritionally improved cottonseed oils by genetically manipulating seed-specific fatty acid desaturase genes in cotton.
Cotton trade -- The world cotton market : prices and distortions -- Neps devalue cotton -- Low-tech gin trash composting to remove pathogens and residues -- Natural fibre blends of cotton and wool -- Bleaching of woven cotton / wool fabric with TAED / H2O2 on a jig machine -- The spinning value of Australian cottons -- Spinners needs -- Satisfying the market -- Cotton trade and GMO's.
Working with our communities -- Successful communications at a community level -- Can we project a good news story in the media, and how? -- Succession planning in cotton families.
New technology -- Multiple water use : getting more from a "bucket" of water -- New plant growth regulators in cotton -- Crop models and decision support : future developments and applications -- Soil health : the role of microbes in crop productivity -- Spray application management -- New challenges from precision agriculture -- Future harvesting systems.
Meeting the challenge -- How can research and extension help meet the challenge?
The way ahead -- The water debate -- A report card : BMP implementation -- Best management practices manual : revised second edition -- Best management practices (BMP) : a grower's perspective -- Cotton and cattle : the future.
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