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Notes: [Conference held in Brisbane, Australia, 20-23 August 1996.] Pest and disease control on sugarcane in Australia is discussed. Novel approaches to minimising impacts of pests and diseases are considered. The major pests of Australian sugarcane are Scarabaeidae and rodents, with Rhabdoscelus obscurus, Inopus rubriceps, Elateridae and Eumargarodes laingi being less important. Management is moving from reliance on synthetic pesticides to pest management systems integrating cultural, biological and insecticidal control. The ability to transform sugarcane plants has opened new opportunities for control of many diseases. The application of strategies for control of viral diseases using novel resistance genes encoding viral coat proteins, replicases and movement proteins are discussed.