Partners and alliances

Key partners and alliances

• Cotton CRC, Cotton Research and Development Corporation; Grains Research and Development Corporation; for support of work carried out at this institute.
  
• Cotton Australia and Cotton Consultants Association (CCA); most cotton and grain growers provide sites for research.
  
• The CSIRO Cotton Research Unit (Divisions of Plant Industry and Ecosystems Services) shares facilities at the Australian Cotton Research Institute and there is extensive collaboration on site with I&I NSW.

Other partners and alliances

• CSIRO and Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries in soybean breeding work linked to Sugar Research and Development Corporation and private industry
  
• South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), Department of Agriculture Western Australia (DAWA), Department of Agriculture Victoria (DAV) and International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in faba bean breeding project linked to industry (Pulse Australia) through the National Pulse Breeding Program.
  
• NativeFire Pty Ltd: alliance developed by I&I NSW to establish a collaborative project between NativeFire and NSW DPI to develop plant extracts for cotton pest management.
  
• Spray Adjuvants Company of Australia (SACOA): allows I&I NSW scientists to evaluate SACOA Petroleum oil products against cotton pests.
  
• Becker-Underwood Alliance: allows I&I NSW integrated pest management (IPM) team to test fungal isolates developed by Becker Underwood.
  
• Growth Agriculture Alliance: allows Growth Agriculture to co invest in Cotton CRC and I&I NSW Semiochemical project
  
• Syngenta Alliance: allows I&I NSW Pathology team to test fungal products developed by Syngenta.
  
• Dupont alliance: allows I&I NSW to screen Dupont products for resistance against pests
  
• Pioneer Seeds Alliance: allows I&I NSW to collaborate with Pioneer seeds
  
• University of Queensland Alliance: allows Dr Robert Mensah to collaborate in Ph.D student supervision
  
• University of Western Sydney Alliance: allows Dr Robert Mensah to collaborate in Ph.D student supervision
  
• Griffith University Alliance: allows Dr Nilantha Hullugale to collaborate in Ph.D student supervision.
  
• University of New England Alliance: allows Dr Robert Mensah to collaborate in Ph.D student supervision
  
• University of New England Alliance: allows I&I NSW scientists at ACRI to lecture and collaborate in Ph.D student supervision
  
• Southern Cross University Alliance: allows Dr Robert Mensah to collaborate with SCU's Centre of Pharmacology and Phytochemistry to develop semiochemical products against cotton pests
  
• BSES and Sugar Research and Development Corporation � Nutgrass management in cane
  
• DEEDI - Toowoomba weeds group