World Cotton Research Conference, WCRC–3

09 March 2003 - 13 March 2003 , Cape Town, South Africa

"Cotton Production for the New Millennium"

 

Organising Committee

International

Dr Terry P Townsend (Chairman), Executive Director, International Cotton Advisory Committee
Dr Jean-Philippe Deguine, Deputy Director, CIRAD-CA, France Peter Griffee, Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO, Italy
Dr Francisco Davila-Ricciardi, President, CONALGODON, Columbia
Dr Andrew Jordan, Technical Director, National Cotton Council of America, USA
Dr Joe CB Kablssa, General Manager, Tanzanian Cotton Lint and Seed Board, Tanzania
Dr Abdusattor Abdukarimov, Director General, Institute of Genetics & Plant Exp. Biology, Uzbekistan
Mr Ralph Schulze (Chairman WCRC-1), Executive Director, Cotton Research & Development, Corporation, Australia
Dr Kiratso Kosmldou-Dlmltropoulou (Chairman WCRC-2), Director, Hellenic Cotton Board, Greece
Dr Deon Joubert (Chairman WCRC-3), Director, ARC Institute for Industrial Crops, South Africa

National

Dr Deon Joubert, Director ARC Institute for Industrial Crops (Chairman)
Ms Jeannie van Biljon, Snr Researcher, ARC Institute for Industrial Crops (Secretary)
Mr Hennie Bruwer, CEO Cotton SA
Mr Hein Schroder, Quality Control Cotton SA
Mr Chris Nolte, Clark Cotton

Scientific Committee

Prof Lawrence Hunter, Divisional Fellow and Leader: Scientific and Technical Excellence, Division of Manufacturing and Materials Technology of the CSIR and Professor Extraordinary and Head of the post-graduate Department of Textile Science, University of Port Elizabeth
Prof Sakkie Pretorius, Professor and chairperson - Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State
Ms Annette Swanepoel, Senior researcher - ARC-Institute for Industrial Crops
Dr Martie Botha, Senior researcher - ARC-Institute for Industrial Crops
Dr Frans Weitz, Plant systematist - Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of Western Cape
Dr Deon Joubert, Director - ARC-Institute for Industrial Crops
Dr Chris Steenkamp, Consultant
Dr Sarel Broodryk, IPM Advisor
Prof Maryke Labuschagne, Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State
Dr Graham Thompson, Assistant Director, ARC-Vegetable and Ornamental Plants Institute
Mr Jean-Luc Hofs, Researcher - Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, University of Pretoria
Prof Charles Reinhardt, Professor and Head of the Department - Plant Production and Soil Science, University of Pretoria

 

1. BREEDING
2. AGRONOMY
3. ENTOMOLOGY
4. PLANT PATHOLOGY
5. NEMATOLOGY
6. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY/BIOCHEMISTRY
7. EXTENSION
8. FIBER TECHNOLOGY
9. CONFERENCE SUMMARIES

1. BREEDING
1.1 General

• • • Cotton research in Uzbekistan: Elite varieties and future of cotton breeding 
      Abdusattor Abdukarimov, Sativaldi Djataev and Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov

• • • Characterization of cotton germplasm and its utilization in breeding for major production constraints in Sudan 
      A.M. Ali, O.M. Ahmed, B.C. Misaka, A.H. Latif, K. Elsiddig and E.A. Babiker

• • • Gossypium betaines and some of their potential roles 
      Gerald Blunden, John Gorham and Maricela Adrian-Romero

• • • Population size in segregating generations in cotton breeding programs 
      Daryl T. Bowman

• • • The International Cotton Genome Initiative 
      Roy G. Cantrell1, O. Lloyd May, Curt Brubaker and Tian-zhen Zhang

• • • Combining ability of yield and yield components in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under drought stress conditions 
      M.A.A. El-Dahan, E.O. Leidi, M. López, and J.C. Gutiérrez

• • • Heritability of earliness criteria in relation to yield in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in the Harran Plain of the southeastern Anatolia project (GAP) area 
      Oktay Gencer and Ramazan Sadet Guvercin

• • • Arabidopsis thaliana as a source of candidate genes for cotton fiber quality 
      M. Giband, S. Pagant, C. Pannetier and H. Höfte

• • • Cotton: Breeding for efficiency 
      R.F.E. Jarvis

• • • Recombinant lines in cotton (Gossypium spp.) 
      I.S. Katageri, B.M. Khadi, K. Manohar, C.D. Soregaon, H.M. Vamadevaiah, M. Manjula and A.M. Badigannavar

• • • Hirsutisation of diploid cultivated cotton 
      V.N. Kulkarni, B.M. Khadi, L.A. Deshpande, S. Sreenivasan and M.S. Bisankopp

• • • Pleiotropic nature of uninodal sympodia, cluster fruiting and square drying in Gossypium barbadense L. cotton 
      V.N. Kulkarni and B.M. Khadi

• • • Genotypic variation in response to heat stress in Upland cotton 
      M. Lopez, M.V. Gutiérrez, M.A.A. El-Dahan, E.O. Leidi and J.C. Gutiérrez

• • • Susceptibility index to study genotypic variation in cotton heat tolerance 
      M. López, M.V. Gutiérrez, M.A.A. El-Dahan, E.O. Leidi and J.C. Gutiérrez

• • • Primitive accessions of cotton as genetic sources for improving yield and fiber properties 
      J.C. McCarty, J.N. Jenkins and J. Wu

• • • Forty years of genetic improvement of cotton through interspecific hybridization at Gembloux Agricultural University: Achievement and prospects 
      G. Mergeai

• • • Isolation and characterization of seven alien monosomic addition lines of Gossypium australe F. Muell. on G. hirsutum L 
      L. Ahoton, J.M. Lacape, A. Dhont, J-P. Baudoin and G. Mergeai

• • • An appraisal of genotypes performance in cotton (Gossypium sp.) breeding experiments in Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo 
      Bin Mushambanyi Théodore Munyuli and Jumapili

• • • Genetic evaluation and comparison of G. herbaceum and G. hirsutum varieties in different levels of rainfed and intensive management situations 
      S.S. Patil, R.S. Patil, C.A. Deepak, D. Somashekhar and B.C. Kolhar

• • • Evaluation of some exotic mutants derived from irradiated cotton seeds 
      A.M.A. Shaheen, M.A. Raafat and S.El-S.S. Sobieh

• • • Effect of chromosome on important quantitative traits of agronomic and fiber traits using Gossypium barbadense chromosome-specific recombinant lines of Gossypium hirsutum 
      Sukumar Saha, Dwaine A. Raska, Johnie N. Jenkins, Jack C. McCarty, Jr., Osman. A. Gutiérrez, Richard G. Percy, Roy G. Cantrell, Jixiang Wu, Jun Zhu and David M. Stelly

• • • New possibilities for some old genes: Improved host plant resistance in cotton 
      J.A. Scheffler, M.K. Dowd, W.R. Meredith Jr. and B.E. Scheffler

• • • Early generation testing for fast development of new cotton varieties in Uganda 
      L.K. Serunjogi, T.E.E Areke, S.B Mukasa, R. Naluyimba and C. Aru

• • • Utilization of exotic cotton germplasm resources to increase genetic diversity 
      J. McD. Stewart and C. Feng

• • • Cotton fiber biology: Integrating genomics and development for improving fiber traits 
      Thea A. Wilkins

• • • Cotton breeding in the Brazilian Cerrado 
      E.C. Freire, C.L. Morello, F.J.C. Farias, F.A. Suinaga and A.E. Araújo

• • • Genetic improvement of Gossypium arboreum for quality cotton 
      C.J. Kapoor

• • • Gene pool concept for diploid cultivated cotton 
      B.M. Khadi, V.N. Kulkarni, A.S. Ansingkar, V.V. Singh and Vinita Gotmore

• • • Advances in participatory cotton breeding in Benin 
      S. Lewicki, J. Lançon, M. Djaboutou, E. Sekloka, D. Takpara, L. Assogba and B.I. Orou Mousse

• • • Role of improving combining ability in increasing performance of cotton hybrids 
      S.S. Patil and S.A. Patil

• • • Studies on heterosis for biophysical traits and yield attributes in cotton hybrids 
      V.H. Ashwathama, B.C. Patil, S. R. Kareekatti and T. S. Adarsha

• • • Genotype traits, biplot analysis of cotton in Spain 
      Aguado, F. Flores, J. López, E. Braojos and J. Rossi

• • • First okra-leaf cotton cultivar bred and released in Argentina 
      J. Poisson, O. M. Royo, L. Erazzú, S. Ibalo and A. Montenegro

• • • Improvements in yield and quality components of Argentinian okra-leaf cotton germplasm 
      J. Poisson, O. M. Royo, L. Erazzú, S. Ibalo and A. Montenegro

• • • Morphological traits characterization and some yield and fiber quality components evaluation of the Argentinian cotton genetic resources 
      O.M. Royo, J. Poisson and A. Montenegro

• • • Land suitability of salt-affected soils in the Goragan region of northeastern Iran for cotton production 
      M.Y. Naseri

1.2 Disease resistance

• • • Inheritance of resistance in cotton cultivars to the HV1 isolate and a mixture of two races of Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum (Smith) Dye in Nigeria 
      S.O. Alabi, A.A. Adeoti, O. Alabi and K.O. Oluwasemire

• • • Advances in cotton resistance breeding to Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts in China during past fifty years 
      JIAN Gui-liang, MA Cun, ZHANG Chuan-lin and ZOU Ya-fei

• • • Introgression in tetraploid cotton of the resistance to reniform nematode Rotylenchulus reniformis Lind. & Oliveira from the Gossypium hirsutum L. x G. longicalyx Hutch & Lee x G. thurberi Tod trispecific hybrid 
      O.N. Konan, O. Ruano, S. Prud'homme, J.P. Baudoin, G. Mergeai

• • • Inheritance of resistance to bacterial blight in some crosses of cotton 
      Ahmed Mohamed Mustafa

• • • Host plant resistance to cotton leaf crumple disease transmitted by whitefly 
      E.T. Natwick, T.A. Turini1, C.G. Cook, Y.S. Seo, and R.L. Gilbertson

• • • Screening of cotton germplasm for "blue disease? under natural field infestation 
      O.M. Royo, L. Erazzu, I. Bonacic, J. Poisson and A. Montenegro

1.3 Molecular markers

• • • Molecular tagging of fiber yield genes using RI lines developed in Uzbekistan 
      I. Abdurakhmonov, Z. Buriev, S. Saha, J. Musaev, A. Almatov, A. E. Pepper, O. U. Reddy, J. N. Jenkins A. Abdullaev and A. Abdukarimov

• • • Sequence characterized amplified regions for Leaf Curl Virus resistance in the cotton genome (G. hirsutum) 
      J. Amudha, G. Balasubramani and C.D. Mayee

• • • Molecular monitoring of the introgression in Gossypium hirsutum L. of G. sturtianum Willis genes controlling the glanded-plant and glandless-seed trait 
      H. Benbouza, M. Lacape, J. M. Jacquemin, J.P Baudoin, G. Mergeai

• • • Molecular markers for DNA-fingerprinting in cotton 
      B. Bojinov1 and J.M. Lacape

• • • A recombinant inbred population of cotton for QTL and DNA marker association 
      J.N. Jenkins, Jixiang Wu, J.C. McCarty, U. Reddy and J. Zhu

• • • Genome mapping of tetraploid cotton: Towards a saturated and unified map 
      J.M. Lacape, T.-B. Nguyen, B. Courtois, B. Bojinov, and B. Hau

1.4 Transgenics

• • • Arboreums in India in the age of transgenics 
      V.S. Dagaonkar and L.P. Aurangabadkar

• • • Implementation and impact of transgenic Bt cottons in Australia 
      Gary P. Fitt

• • • Cotton biotechnology: Beyond Bt and herbicide tolerance 
      Kater Hake

• • • Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis of Bt cotton in India 
      B.M. Khadi, V.N. Kulkarni, I.S. Katageri, H.M. Vamadevaiah and Manjula Maralappanavar

2. AGRONOMY
2.1 General

• • • The performance of cotton cultivars on research stations and on Agricultural Rural Development Centers (ARDC's) in the 1998/99 to 2001/2002 cropping seasons 
      T.E. Alweendo

• • • The role of germination in the assessment of the potential weediness of Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in tropical Australia 
      R.J. Eastick and M.J. Hearnden

• • • Global impacts of Bt cotton 
      George B. Frisvold and Jeanne M. Reeves

• • • Discolored cotton: Identification of the causal agents and the factors that govern its severity 
      Shtienberg D, Nave C, Vintal H, Kritzman G, Gat E and Dinoor A

• • • Compartmentation and compatible solutes in abiotic stress resistance 
      John Gorham

• • • Technological and marketing problems of cotton cultivators in northern India 
      Pawan Kumar, N.S. Verma and Joginder S. Malik

• • • Cotton Scale - a reference system for determination of developmental stages of the cotton plant 
      C.J.M. Marur and Onaur Ruano

• • • Effect of some characteristics of cotton (G. hirsutum) seedling on early vigor in different morphological leaves 
      Mohammad Barzali, Zeinolabedin Tahmasebi Sarvestani, Farrokhdin Ghezeli and Hoshang Bayat Asadi

• • • Competition and coordination in liberalized African cotton market systems 
      Colin Poulton, Peter Gibbon, Benjamine Hanyani-Mlambo, Jonathan Kydd, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Wilbald Maro, Afonso Osorio, David Tschirley and Ballard Zulu

2.2 Cultivation practices

• • • Plant density spatial arrangement for morphologically varying cotton varieties 
      E.A. Babiker

• • • Sustainable cotton production systems for the humid savannas of central Brazil 
      L. Séguy, S. Bouzinac, J.L. Belot, J.Martin

• • • Effect of growth regulators and chemicals on seed and seed cotton yield in Gossypium hirsutum L 
      M.R. Eshanna, I.S. Katageri and B.M. Khadi

• • • Yield and quality evaluation of cotton cultivars grown under dryland conditions in summer dominant rainfall environments of Eastern Australia 
      R.R. Eveleigh and W.N. Stiller

• • • Agronomic concepts and approaches for sustainable cotton production 
      Stella Galanopoulou-Sendouca and Derrick Oosterhuis

• • • Role of early maturing and Cotton Leaf Curl Virus resistant cotton varieties in sustainable cotton production 
      C.J. KAPOOR

• • • Deciphering variation in cotton yield, yield components and fiber quality 
      O. Lloyd May and Craig W. Bednarz

• • • Fiber quality, gin and harvest efficiency evaluation of a new stripper shaker system compared to the picker system 
      A. Montenegro, O.M. Royo and A.P. Fernandez

• • • Effect of tillage and residue management practices on cotton-wheat cropping system in canal command area of north-west, Rajasthan (India) 
      P.L. Nehra and P.D. Kumawat

• • • Conservation tillage and poultry litter management for sustainable cotton production in southeast USA 
      E.Z. Nyakatawa and K.C. Reddy

• • • Assessment of the effects of plant population and sowing date on growth and yield of cotton 
      Mohamed M. Omer and O.A.M. El Hassan

• • • Growth, phenology and yield of rainfed cotton as influenced by different climatic factors under Dharwad (south India) conditions 
      B.C. Patil and S.R. Kareekatti

• • • Evaluation of cotton cultivars under dryland and irrigated conditions in South Africa 
      M.M. Pretorius

• • • Cotton response to three plant population densities in Spain 
      J. Rossi and E. Braojos

• • • Three cotton varieties grown with transparent plastic mulching in Spain 
      J. Rossi and E. Braojos

• • • Studies on cotton based crop rotations under north Indian irrigated conditions 
      Anupam Singh, Daljeet Singh and Kuldeep Singh

• • • A high yielding quality hirsutum cotton variety for sustainable agriculture in the penninsular India under irrigated situations 
      V.T. Sundaramurthy

• • • Defoliation of California Pima and Upland cotton 
      Steve Wright, Bruce Roberts, Ron Vargas, Bob Hutmacher, Tome' Martin-Duval, Lalo Banuelos and Eric Hoffman

• • • Assessing the feasibility for cotton in tropical Australia: Progress with the development and testing of models for climatic assessment and resource planning 
      S.J. Yeates and M.P. Bange

• • • Mechanized cotton picking in narrow rows under Greek conditions 
      D.I. Bartzialis and S. Galanopoulou-Sendouca

• • • Conservation practices for dryland cotton production in South Africa 
      C.S.M. Brough, J. Kruger and M.C. Dippenaar

• • • Polymer coating effects on seed quality ratings of cotton 
      N.W. Hopper, D.B. Olivier, W.D. Becker and T.C. Wedegaertner

• • • Planting date, plant density and irrigation management: Responses of recent Upland varieties in the San Joaquin Valley of California 
      R.B. Hutmacher, S.D. Wright, M.P. Keeley, B.H. Marsh, R. Delgado and G. Banuelos

• • • Prototyping crop management systems for specific cotton growing conditions 
      J. Lançon, J. Wery, B. Rapidel, M. Angokaye, D. Ballo, T. Brévault, V. Cao, J.P. Deguine, P. Dugu, B. Fadegnon, M. Fok, C. Gaborel, E. Gérardeaux, C. Klassou and A. Yattara

• • • Effect of night temperature on boll growth and yield 
      Milenka Arevalo, Derrick Oosterhuis, Dennis Coker and Scott Brown

2.3 Nutrition

• • • Performance of different genotypes of cotton under increased irrigation interval 
      Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Aslam, Lal Hussain Akhtar and Ghulam Hussain

• • • Effect of fertilizer form on cotton production under the alkaline clayey soil of Sudan Gezira 
      Naiem A. Ali, M.M. Omer, A.A.M. Elhassan and A.M. Ali

• • • Leaf nutrient concentrations in cotton cultivars grown on slightly sodic soils 
      I.J. Rochester and G.A. Constable

• • • Integrated nutrient management practices for sustainable production in cotton based cropping systems under assured rainfall conditions 
      H.L. Halemani, S.S. Hallikeri And M.B. Antaravalli

• • • Effect of nitrogen and growth regulator applications on seed cotton (G. hirsutum L.) yield under ecological conditions of the Harran Plain in the GAP region 
      O. Gencer1 and M. Anlagan (Tas)

• • • Influence of salinity on cotton nitrogen status 
      John Gorham, Yusuf Shafi and Javed Memon

• • • Effects of soil and foliar potassium status and water deficit on cotton physiology and yield 
      D.L. Coker and D.M. Oosterhuis

• • • Highlights of research on foliar fertilization of cotton in Arkansas 
      Derrick M. Oosterhuis

• • • The effect of low irrigation and fertigation on cotton production under Greek conditions 
      M.P. Polychronides and S. Galanopoulou-Sendouca

• • • Effect of nitrogen and fruiting position on fiber properties, boll retention and yield components of cotton 
      R. De M. Vieira, A A. De Medeiros, J.R.A De Amorime, F. Das and C.E. Da Fonseca

2.4 Drought tolerance

• • • Screening of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) for tolerance to early season drought 
      K.O. Oluwasemire, S.O. Alabi, S.O.Olaofe

• • • Improving cotton productivity in arid-region agriculture 
      Y. Saranga, A. Cohen, I. Flash, C.X. Jiang, M. Menz, R.J. Wright, D. Yakir and A.H. Paterson

• • • Drought tolerant cotton genotypes might work with the present water crisis in Sindh, Pakistan 
      Abdul Razaque Soomro, Rehana Anjum and Saira Bano

• • • In vitro screening for salinity resistance in cotton (G. hirsutum) 
      H.M. Vamadevaiah, I.S. Katageri, B.M. Khadi, Shobha Immadi, Anita B. and M. Manjula

2.5 Organic cotton production

• • • Organic cotton production in Sindh, Pakistan 
      Rehana Anjum, Abdul Razaque Soomro, Saira Bano and Ahmed Nawaz Soomro

• • • Cleaner cotton production in South Africa 
      S.W. Broodryk

• • • Organic cotton production and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: The need for scaling-up 
      Peter Ton

• • • Studies on organic cotton production under rainfed conditions 
      S.S. Hallikeri, H.L. Halemani and R.A. Nandagavi

2.6 Weed science

• • • Screening of cotton lines as trap crops for the induction of abortive germination of Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth in Nigeria 
      S.O. Alabi, C.J.Botanga, S.T.O. Lagoke and I. Kureh

• • • Herbicide resistance and species shift in cotton: The need for an Integrated Weed Management (IWM) approach 
      G.W. Charles and I.N. Taylor

• • • Cutting edge weed science WEEDpak: A weed identification and management guide for the Australian cotton industry  
      S.B. Johnson, G.W. Charles, L. MacKinnon, G.N. Roberts and I.N. Taylor

• • • Reducing residual pre-emergent or pre-plant herbicide use in cotton through the development of weed thresholds 
      Ian Taylor, Graham Charles and Benita Inchbold

• • • Yield impacts and extension activities associated with simulated herbicide drift on a commercial cotton field 
      M. Hickman, A. Storrie, T. Cook and B. McCorkell

2.7 Modeling

• • • Risk assessment in decision-making using the COTONS® model 
      M. Cretenet, P. Martin and R.H. Mohtar

• • • Advancements in computerized decision support for Australian cotton systems 
      S.A. Deutscher and M.P. Bange

• • • Data based model creation in cotton research 
      J. Militky´

• • • Cotton modeling: Advances and gaps in our ability to assess climate change, crop management, economic and environmental policy decisions 
      V.R. Reddy, K.R. Reddy, K. Sailaja, A.G. Richardson, V.G. Kakani and D. Zhao

• • • Plant population model versus average plant model in discrete process simulation: The case of cotton fruits abscission by COTONS® model 
      M. Cretenet, P. Martin, E. Jallas, R. Sequeira and J. Jean

3. ENTOMOLOGY
3.1 Integrated pest management

• • • Assessing the feasibility for cotton production in tropical Australia: Systems for Helicoverpa spp. management 
      A.J. Annells and G.R. Strickland

• • • Integrated pest management as part of a cleaner textile production strategy for cotton in South Africa 
      S.W. Broodryk, K. Lundbo and A. Bennett

• • • New vistas in IRM based cotton IPM in India 
      K.R. Kranthi, S.K. Banerjee, Sheo Raj, C.D. Mayee and D.A. Russell

• • • Current approaches for management of cotton pests and diseases in India 
      C.D. Mayee

• • • Development of IPM in cotton in Australia: Establishment and utilization of natural enemies and integration with biological and synthetic insecticides 
      R.K. Mensah and A. Singleton

• • • Realities of educating resource poor farmers: Experiences in IPM implementation 
      Peter A.C. Ooi

• • • Integrated pest management with genetically modified cotton hybrids in India 
      S.B. Patil, S.S. Udikeri and B.M. Khadi

• • • Gaining confidence in farmer-participatory integrated pest management in Uganda: NARO?s experience in improving uptake of crop protection technologies for cotton 
      M.B. Sekamatte, L.K. Serunjongi and A.H. El-Heneidy

• • • Assessing the feasibility for cotton in tropical Australia: Research for the development of sustainable pest management systems 
      G.R. Strickland, A.J Annells and A.L. Ward

• • • The role of synthetic pheromone, endosulfan and other techniques for the prevention of carry-over in the integrated management of pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in South India 
      V.T. Sundaramurthy

• • • Cotton IPM - Research success and field disappointment: Why are implementation projects not succeeding? 
      A.J. Treen and H. Burgstaller

• • • Implementing IPM in Australian cotton 
      L.J. Wilson, R.K. Mensah and G.P. Fitt

• • • An IPM system for summer irrigated cotton in South India 
      S.V. Krishnamoorthy, S. Subramanian, A. Ramalingam and N. Sivasamy

3.2 Insecticides

• • • Effect of imidacloprid seed treatment on growth, yield, seedling vigor and biophysical parameters in cotton (Gossypium spp.) genotypes 
      B.C. Patil, S.B. Patil, S.S. Udikeri, T.S. Adarsha and B.M. Khadi

• • • Imidacloprid smearing: A new technique to control early sucking insect pests of cotton 
      M. Bheemanna and B.V. Patil

• • • Thrips on cotton in South Africa 
      E.G. Eulitz

• • • Cotton pesticides in perspective: Risk management for produce and environmental protection 
      I.R. Kennedy, F. Sánchez-Bayo, A. Crossan and M. Rose

• • • Monitoring insecticide resistance in the bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hu¨bner) from 1998 to 2002 in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa 
      T. Martin, G.O. Ochou, M. Vaissayre and D. Fournier

• • • Insecticide induced abundance of Helicoverpa armigera Hu¨bner and upsurge of Aphis gossypii Glov. in cotton 
      T. Surulivelu, V.G. Mathirajan, N. Gopalakrishnan and B. Dhara jothi

• • • Activity spectrum of spinosad and indoxacarb: Rationale for an innovative pyrethroid resistance management strategy in West Africa 
      O.G. Ochou and T. Martin

• • • Laboratory measured synergistic suppression of cypermethrin resistance by Pongamia oil (PO) and piperonyl butoxide (Pbo) and consequent field control 
      E. Sumathi and A. Regupathy

• • • Reduced use of insecticides against cotton bollworms with F1 cotton hybrids possessing Bt-gene: A myth or reality? 
      Abdul Razaque Soomro, Rehana Anjum and Saira Bano

• • • Effect of seed dressing insecticides on control of cotton aphids in Zimbabwe 
      A.R. Chimoga

• • • Remediation of pesticides on cotton farms: Studies of the fate and transport of five pesticides 
      Angus N. Crossan and Ivan R. Kennedy

• • • Characterization of insensitive acetylcholinesterase in Helicoverpa armigera 
      N. Javed, G. Devine and G.D. Moores

• • • Influence of the simultaneous use of pheromonic sources on the capture of Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) and Helicoverpa armigera (Hu¨bner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on cotton 
      C.G. Athanassiou, N.G. Kavallieratos, E. Th. Kolokytha and F.T. Gravanis

• • • Spinosad: a new chemistry to solve the pyrethroid resistance of Helicoverpa armigera (Hu¨bner) in West Africa 
      Thibaud Martin and Germain O. Ochou

• • • Residues of thiamethoxam 25 WG (ACTARA®), in plant matrices and soil after application to the cotton ecosystem 
      V.G. Mathirajan and A. Regupathy

• • • Effects of imidacloprid on the physiology, growth and yield of cotton 
      Derrick M. Oosterhuis and Robert S. Brown

• • • Management of pink bollworm through eco-friendly pheromone "Sirene PBW" in cotton 
      S.B. Patil, S.S. Udikeri, A.M.Nadaf and B.M. Khadi

• • • Gaucho®: An innovation in cotton seed treatment under African conditions 
      Ru¨diger Altmann, Roland Gallow and Ir Emmanuel Salmon

• • • Enhancing the bio-efficacy of pyrethroids against cotton bollworms through synergistic effect of Omite - a field investigation 
      S.S. Udikeri, S.B. Patil, G.S. Guruprasad, B.M. Khadi, Prashanth Kharwadkar and T. Ratnakumar

• • • In vivo effect of PBO on esterases from Helicoverpa armigera and Bemisia tabaci 
      S.J. Young, R.V. Gunning and G.D. Moores

3.3 Insecticide resistance

• • • Insecticide resistance profile from 1991-2002 for Helicoverpa armigera in Pakistan 
      M.I. Arif, M.Ahmad and D.A. Russell

• • • Aphid and whitefly management in cotton growing: Review and challenges for the future 
      J.P. Deguine, M. Vaissayre and P. Ferron

• • • Biotypes of Bemisia tabaci and their relevance to the evolution and management of insecticide resistance 
      G.J. Devine, H. El Kady, K. Gorman, A.R. Horowitz, J. Cenis & I. Denholm

• • • Area-wide management of insecticide resistant pests of cotton in India 
      D.A. Russell, K.R. Kranthi, C.D. Mayee, S.K. Banarjee and Sheo Raj

• • • Patterns and magnitude of insecticide resistance levels in cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) in India, Pakistan and China 
      A. Regupathy, Keshav Kranthi, Joginder Singh, M.I.Arif, Yidong Wu and Derek Russell

3.4 Bt cotton

• • • Variability of Bt expression among commercial transgenic cotton varieties in the United States 
      John J. Adamczyk, Jr. and William R. Meredith

• • • Effects of Jasmonate on insect pests and natural enemies in Bt and non-Bt cotton fields 
      N. El-Wakeil, J. Bernal & S. Vidal

• • • Contributions of Bt-transgenic cotton to the Israeli Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM) strategy 
      A.R. Horowitz, A. Navon, S. Levski, S. Yablonski & A. Niv

• • • Perspectives on resistance management strategies for Bt-cotton in India 
      K.R. Kranthi, S. Kranthi, S.K. Banerjee and C.D. Mayee

• • • Effect of Bt cotton hybrids on larval incidence and development of Helicoverpa armigera Hu¨bner 
      T. Surulivelu, V.G. Mathirajan and B. Dhara jothi

• • • The performance of Bt transgenic (INGARD®) cotton in Australia over six seasons 
      B.A. Pyke

• • • Performance of Bt-cotton genotypes under unprotected conditions 
      S.S. Udikeri, S.B. Patil, A.M. Nadaf and B.M. Khadi

• • • From insecticide resistance to Bt cotton: Is insect pest management sustainable in small-scale farming systems? 
      M. Vaissayre, J.L. Hofs and J.M. Vassal

• • • Changes in the efficacy of Bt cotton against Helicoverpa armigera (Hu¨bner): Interpretation of assays 
      K.M. Olsen, R.J. Mahon, J.C. Daly, E.J. Finnegan and H. Holt

• • • Economics of Bt cotton refuge requirements 
      Jeanne M. Reeves and George B. Frisvold

• • • Estimation of avoidable sprays for bollworm management in Bt- cottons 
      S.S. Udikeri, S.B. Patil, A.M. Nadaf and B.M. Khadi

3.5 General

• • • Monitoring fruiting factors as a tool in insect management 
      D.Gibb, M.Hickman and I. MacPherson

• • • Pest control and sustainable smallholder cotton production: Progress and prospects 
      Joe C.B. Kabissa

• • • Partial CO1 sequence of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera 
      S. Kranthi, K.R. Kranthi, A.A. Bharose, C.S. Dhawad and C.D. Mayee

• • • Boll damage by sucking pests: An emerging threat, but what do we know about it? 
      Tom Lei, Moazzem Khan and Lewis Wilson

• • • Inventory of pests and natural enemies on cotton in lowland production zone of Ruzizi Plain, Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo 
      Munyuli Bin Mushambanyi Théodore

• • • Cotton bollworm economic injury levels based on crop model predictions: Another use of the Cotons® model 
      S. Nibouche, J. Beyo, T. Brévault, M. Crétenet, E. Gozé, E. Jallas, P. Martin and A.A. Moussa

• • • Importance of native vegetation to beneficial insects and its role in reducing insect pest damage in cotton 
      I.C. Rencken, L. Silberbauer, N. Reid and P. Gregg

• • • Alternative bollworm control strategies for the small-scale farmer 
      David Mamogobo, Martie S. Botha and Petrus Mtsweni

• • • Simulation of damage caused by the Heliothis-Helicoverpa-Spodoptera spp. complex to cotton plants (Gossypium hirsutum L.) shoots 
      M.A. Simonella, O.M. Royo, G.B. Contreras, S. Mazza and A. Montenegro

4. PLANT PATHOLOGY

• • • DYNASTY® CST - Innovative and broad spectrum control of cotton seedling diseases 
      D. Long, F. Brandl, B. Forster, J. Yoder, S. Baum, K. McKee and A. Gorrochategui

• • • Diversity of cotton-infecting gemini viruses 
      Rob W. Briddon

• • • Biological effect of Pseudomonas oryzihabitans and Gliocladium virens on Rhizoctonia solani, the causal agent of damping-off 
      A.V. Kapsalis, S.R. Gowen, I.K. Vagelas and F.T. Gravanis

• • • Studies on the Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCuV) disease in north India 
      Dilip Monga, Sheo Raj and Charudatt Mayee

• • • Soil-borne diseases of cotton in Australia: Meeting the challenge 
      D.B. Nehl

• • • Disease management information within the Australian cotton industry - an on-going research, extension and industry collaboration 
      G.R. Salmond, J.K. Kochman

• • • Management of root rot of cotton, caused by Rhizoctonia solani, through bioagents 
      G.T. Behere, V.S. Tajane, V.E. Aage and E.B. Burgoni

• • • Progress of witches broom disease of cotton in Mato Grosso State, Brazil 
      A.E. Araújo and F.J.C. Farias

• • • Management of Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCuV) disease by managing its vector, the whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Genn.) 
      D. Singh, K. Singh and H.R. Garg

5. NEMATOLOGY

• • • Estimating yield losses associated with the interaction between Thielaviopsis basicola and the root-knot nematode on cotton 
      C.S. Rothrock, T.L. Kirkpatrick, N.R. Walker and W.S. Monfort

• • • A chemical-biological control approach for nematodes on cotton 
      Elizabeth R. van Biljon

6. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY/BIOCHEMISTRY

• • • Germination test using electrical conductivity 
      A. Montenegro, O.M. Royo, O. Ayala, P.A. Fernandez

• • • Strategies for biochemical characterization of cotton fibers 
      Allen K. Murray and Robert L. Nichols

• • • Evaluation of Gossypium genotypes for oil content and component fatty acids 
      H.R. Garg, Aman Kapoor, Pankaj Rathore, Dharminder Pathak, J.S. Gill and R.K. Raheja

• • • Physiological and molecular responses of common cotton cultivars under water-deficient conditions 
      C.R. Meek, D.M. Oosterhuis and J.M. Stewart

• • • The cotton leaf cuticle and absorption of foliar-applied agrochemicals 
      Derrick M. Oosterhuis

• • • Physiological and biochemical responses of cotton following aphid feeding 
      S.K. Gomez, D.M. Oosterhuis, D.R. Johnson, D.C. Steinkraus and D.L. Hendrix

7. EXTENSION

• • • Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre IPM short courses - an industry learning together 
      W. Dalton, G.T. McIntyre, D. Gibb, M. Hickman and G. Kauter

• • • Progress and challenges in making productivity gains in cotton production by smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 
      Dr Michel Fok

• • • Extension in the Australian cotton industry - a team approach 
      G.T. McIntyre, D. Gibb, A.J. Shaw, I.H. Christiansen and B.A. Pyke

• • • Water use efficiency extension in the Queensland cotton and grains industries - an industry partnership 
      G.T. McIntyre and P.J. Goyne

• • • Measuring the sustainability of cotton production systems 
      G.W. Roth

• • • Schooling our cotton industry in Australia: Sharing the knowledge 
      J.N. Stanley, G.W. Roth, D. Gibb and R.S. Jessop

• • • Extending IPM practices into Ugandan cotton pest management 
      B. Sekamatte, D. Luseesa and D.A. Russell

8. FIBER TECHNOLOGY

• • • Major factors affecting conversion of cotton fibers into quality products 
      Rajesh D. Anandjiwala, Francois Barkhuysen and Abisha Tembo

• • • Quickspin - a new method for evaluating cotton quality 
      P. Artzt

• • • A yarn dismantler: A new technology for laboratories 
      E. Weideman, F.A. Barkhuysen, A.A. Fassihi and L. Hunter

• • • Predicting the nep number in cotton yarn - determination of the critical nep size 
      Iwona Frydrych and Malgorzata Matusiak

• • • Limits of measuring short fiber content by high volume instrument 
      J.P. Gourlot, M. Giner, C. Brunissen, P. Francalanci, S. Lassus, J.C. Nieweadomsky and M. Vialle

• • • Cotton quality assessment and classing in the 21st century 
      L. Hunter

• • • Processing of hemp fiber in blends with cotton for apparel fabrics 
      R. Kozlowski, J. Mañkowski, W. Cierpucha, A. Kubacki and M. Muzyczek

• • • Microscopic analysis of cotton nep structure 
      M. Matusiak and I. Frydrych

• • • Natural or man-made fibers - the question of our health 
      M. Zimniewska and R. Kozlowski

• • • Mixing quality evaluation in cotton type blended yarns 
      D. Kremenakova and J. Militky

9. CONFERENCE SUMMARIES

• • • Conference Summary: Cotton Breeding and Biotechnology 
      Roy G. Cantrell

• • • Conference Summary: Fiber Quality and Ginning 
      Dr L Hunter

• • • Conference Summary: Technology Transfer 
      C.D. Mayee

• • • Conference Summary: Agronomy and Physiology 
      Guy Roth

• • • Conference Summary: Crop Protection 
      D.A. Russell