Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration
The Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC) is a collaborative approach to cotton disease research to reduce the economic impact of current and emerging diseases.
Disease is a high-priority issue for the Australian cotton industry. It contributes to significant yield losses and undermines long-term confidence in growing cotton. In extreme cases, some growers have opted out of growing cotton in response to severe and escalating disease pressure.
To minimise the impact of cotton disease, CRDC developed the $13 million Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration, a partnership between CRDC, the University of Southern Queensland and the QLD Department of Primary Industries.
The ACDC mission is to reduce the impact of diseases in cotton to less than 5 per cent of the cost of production through research on key areas, such as systems-based disease control, understanding pathogen behaviour, spatial data analytics, fungicides and plant defense mediators.
Visit the ACDC Virtual National Centre or read an overview of ACDC's investments.
