🧪 Cotton facilitates long-distance seed dispersal through bird nests: a mutualistic relationship? www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

🧪 Establishment of a rapid split-root assay in hydroponic conditions for eight upland cotton varieties doi.org/10.1016/j.me... #PlantScience

🧪 Partial root-zone drying restricts root ABA accumulation thereby restoring fiber strength via synergistic regulation of cellulose biosynthesis and crystallinity doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... #PlantScience

Induction by caterpillars of stored and emitted volatiles among populations of wild cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.17.589906v1

☀️🌿 RESEARCH ☀️🌿 Gossypium herbaceum Rubisco carboxylation efficiency was greater than that of G. hirsutum and was modelled to improve photosynthetic carbon above 25 °C. However, Sargent et al. observed no differences in gas exchange parameters. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Methylome Changes Drive Fiber Differentiation in Cotton In a groundbreaking revelation within plant genomics, a recent study published in BMC Genomics has illuminated the intricate processes of fiber differentiation in the widely cultivated cotton species, Gossypium hirsutum. This research…

A synthetic transcription cascade enables direct in planta shoot regeneration for transgenesis and gene editing in multiple plants www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪 Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses identify MYB genes regulating key metabolites and agronomic traits in upland cotton Gossypium hirsutum www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience

📢 New publication 'MicroRNA-Induced Gene Silencing ( #MIGS): A Tool for Multi-Gene Silencing and Targeting Viruses in Plants' by Marie-Emilie Gauthier et al. in Plant Biotechnology Journal 🧬🧪 #RNAi #GeneSilencing doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

🧪Biodegradable mulch enhances cotton yield via microplastic reduction and P cycling microbes modulation doi.org/10.1016/j.fc... #plantScience

Sustainable Gossypium arboreum biodiesel production using an industrial waste heterogeneous catalyst for RCCI engine applications rdcu.be/eNViQ

🧪PhD Thesis by Cao Fang (Grace) University of Canberra 'Insecticide resistance management in Australian cotton pests Bemisia tabaci and Helicoverpa armigera conferta' tinyurl.com/4d6fzhb8 #PlantScience

An Australian’s willingness to pay for a cotton t-shirt by The Australian Cottongrower www.cottongrower.com.au/read/160#52

Sadly I heard today that Jim Peacock has died. Jim was the foremost pioneer of plant molecular biology in Australia & globally. He was both my mentor and friend and will be sorely missed by many #plantscience 🧪 www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Life cycle assessment and the emergence of product circularity: A review with context to the textile supply chain in Australia doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...

How ThredUp Resells 17 Million Garments Every Year www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdaP...

Compaction effects on crop yields in Vertisols: Transient under wet years tinyurl.com/mryuw7ct

Another bold colour added to the genome editing palette. Can’t wait to see how bridge recombinases reshape what’s possible in genome engineering. Megabase-scale human genome rearrangement with programmable bridge recombinases | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪Engineering Gossypol-Free Cottonseeds for Future Global Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability iadns.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

Challenges and Limitations in Recycling of Post-Consumer Cotton Denim Waste into New Textiles tinyurl.com/s5vxfevh

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7950385... #3117 - Athetis tenuis A Noctuid found in all of Australia, Norfolk Island and New Zealand. Great Southern BioBlitz 2024, Wongan Hills - Christmas Rock

The Polyploid Continuum and Landscape of Polyploid Genomic Variation tinyurl.com/2esc7nfa

🏆2025 AACS Service to Cotton Science Award🏆 Goes to Kristen Knight tinyurl.com/5ep5vbxc Kristen is Bayer’s Australian lead for insect traits, focusing on resistance mechanisms in lepidopteran & sucking pests to guide the dev of future trait platforms & improve pest management

🏆2025 AACS Scientific Publication Award 🏆 Goes to Arun Chandra Manivannan et al. doi.org/10.1021/acs.... Textile Recycling’s Hidden Problem: Surface-Modified Fiber Fragments Emitted at Every Stage. Environmental Science & Technology @Uni_Newcastle @CottonResearch 🧪

🏆2025 AACS Early Career Scientist Award🏆 Goes to Manish Patel of CSIRO Agriculture & Food tinyurl.com/yc64abzs Leveraged AI & computer vision to detect & quantify Verticillium Wilt infection in cotton stems to aid breeding of resistant varieties #Plantscience

We celebrate new ⭐AACS Life Member- Stephen Yeates 🥳 tinyurl.com/7s4rbpk9 🌱Provided the foundation for successful cotton production to recommence in the Kimberley 🧪Showed the importance of understanding local factors in creating region-specific production systems

We celebrate new ⭐AACS Life Member- Gary Fitt 🥳 tinyurl.com/abrbxv9z 🐛 Made fundamental contributions to understanding the ecology of Helicoverpa spp. & other major pests 🗝️ Played a key role in integrating Bollgard varieties into Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for cotton

🧪 Assessing the impact of later emerging broadleaf weeds on the critical period for weed control in high-yielding cotton bit.ly/47GpHPR #PlantScience

Weed detection based on deep learning from UAV imagery: A review doi.org/10.1016/j.at...

Genome analyses and breeding of polyploid crops ->Nature | More info from EcoSearch

🧪 Patterns of domestication in upland cotton: a perspective from multielement stoichiometry rdcu.be/eBNDV #PlantScience

4. 🏭 A $60 million cotton gin has opened in Kununurra, Western Australia, allowing local growers to process cotton locally instead of transporting it to Queensland.

Affordable phenomics: Expanding access to enhancing genetic gain in plant breeding doi.org/10.1002/ppj2... #PlantScience

Comprehensive Assessment of PeriodiCT Model for Canopy Temperature Forecasting mdpi.com/3396612 #PlantScience

🧪 Master of Science Thesis by Diva Nicole Rigney 'Investigating Genetic Influences on Nutritive Value of Whole Cottonseed' @auburnuniversity.bsky.social #PlantScience etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415...

🧪 Quantitative genetic analysis of diamide resistance in Australian Spodoptera litura rdcu.be/eyMVK

🧪 Beyond nature's clock: Accelerating genomic diversity through hypermutation doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🧪 Nitrogen sources and sinks – Understanding the fate of nitrogen fertiliser when applied at various times and quantifying internally remobilised nitrogen in cotton www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience

🧪 Species-specific phylloplane responses to changes in external pH doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Only Gossypium species displayed strong buffering #PlantScience

🧪 Identification of genetic basis underlying mature cotton fiber length through metabolite-based genome-wide association analysis doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience

🧪 Comparative Genomics Reveals Ancient & Unique Pathogenicity Features in Australian Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum mdpi.com/3373584

Have you wondered how cotton came to be that natural fibre we know & love? 🤔🧵❤️ Register for the #AACS Aus Cotton Res. Conf. & hear from @iowastateu.bsky.social @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social 'The fabric of a family tree' More speakers & conference registration here: shorturl.at/dzfHm

🧪 Disruption of HaVipR1 confers Vip3Aa resistance in the moth crop pest Helicoverpa armigera doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The finalists for this years' @csd_cotton Researcher of the Year Award are: - Dr. Katie Broughton, CSIRO - Lou Gall, @cottoninfoaust Technical Lead -Dr Murray Sharman, DPI (QLD) ow.ly/nfLA50VYF3p #AusCotton #AusAg

🧪 A Master's thesis by Paul Delgado Melgares @aalto.fi Recycling the recycled: Transforming Cotton Dust into High-performance Regenerated Cellulose Fibers Using Ioncell®Technology tinyurl.com/d7dnwfke #PlantScience

🧪 Phd thesis by Mikaela Tilse @ The University of Sydney Shifting focus from quantity to quality: Mapping, understanding, & managing within-field variability in crop quality in cotton & grain systems ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/... #PlantScience

🧪 Young maize plants impact the bacterial community in Australian cotton-sown vertisol more than agricultural practices tinyurl.com/mss66u5m #PlantScience

🧪 Lethal & sublethal effects of cotton expressing single & pyramided proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis on Helicoverpa armigera, Spodoptera litura, & Spodoptera frugiperda tinyurl.com/36xcktb3 #PlantScience

🧪 Plants originating from more extreme biomes have improved leaf thermoregulation doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

🧪 A deaminase–helicase (RepA) fusion & a primase (RepB) error-prone DNA polymerase I fusion induce all types of mutation only in the target plasmid dlvr.it/TKhpyB from @paperperday.bsky.social