School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences
The University of Sydney
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Dr Peter Brian New

Research Associate
Plant Breeding Institute - formerly in Molecular and Microbial Biosciences
Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

C44 - Plant Breeding Institute
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Phone +61 2 9036 7767
Fax +61 2 9351 8875
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Research Interests

Peter New is now retired and is not able to accept any graduate students or post-doctoral fellows. He worked on Agricultural Microbiology, particularly concentrating on nitrogen fixation, microbial biofertilisers and pesticide degradation.
His interest in educational methods resulted in a number of conference presentations, as well as publications in the area of transfer of mathematical learning.

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    2006
    • Harris, J, New, P, Martin, P. Laboratory tests can predict beneficial effects of phosphate solubilising bacteria on plants. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2006; 38:1521-1526
    2005
    • Kim, C, Kecskés, M, Deaker, R, Gilchrist, K, New, P, Kennedy, I, Kim, S, Sa, T. Wheat root colonization and nitrogenase activity by Azospirillum isolates from crop plants in Korea. Canadian journal of microbiology. 2005; 51:948-956 [Abstract]