Dr Rose Roche inspecting a cotton trial; Narrow rows widen chance of higher cotton yields.

M2 Presswire, May, 2007

M2 PRESSWIRE-8 May 2007-CSIRO AUSTRALIA: Dr Rose Roche inspecting a cotton trial; Narrow rows widen chance of higher cotton yields(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08052007 Six years of field experiments have shown lint yield was higher when cotton was planted close together in narrow rows less than 40 centimetres apart.

The research - completed by Rose Roche at Narrabri as part of her PhD with The University of Queensland and CSIRO Plant Industry - is unravelling the complexity of 'ultra-narrow row' (UNR) cotton's growth and development. "Previous experiments across Australia and the USA have been inconclusive about the yield and maturity benefits of UNR, so we wanted to once and for all pin down the facts," Ms Roche says. "Across all our...