Abstract:
This is capital item funded by the CRDC to support CRDC funded project CSP140C 'The impact of temperature extremes on cotton performance'. The installation of a controlled Temperature Cold Room Facility at ACRI Narrabri is to study chilling injury of cotton, at emergence, development to flowering, and boll period (including the impacts on fibre quality).
Having a facility at Narrabri allows specific types of experiments to be conducted. There is presently no cold room facility at ACRI where the temperatures can be changed accurately for this type of experimental work. Ranges of cold and cool temperatures need to be generated to determine the severity of their impacts on different stages of cotton crop development. In addition to this, other cold rooms at ACRI are being used for storage of experimental material, and temperatures cannot be changed.
