He included that support and partnership with the cotton industry including growers, the Cotton Research and Development Corporation, the Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre and organisations including Cotton Seed Distributors have made our cotton breeding work possible. It is estimated that every dollar invested into our cotton breeding research returns $86 to the Australian cotton industry.
A review of the CSIRO's cotton breeding and biotechnology program by three international experts in 2004 also confirmed it as one of the most successful of its type in the world.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is one of the world's largest and most diverse scientific global research organizations.
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