Research on biological nitrogen fixation in CSIRO plant industry, 1952-1998

Historical Records of Australian Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-299

  Bergersen, F J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 34548445611     PISSN: 07273061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/HR0011330255     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Most notably, the research led by Prof. J. M. Vincent in the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, by Prof. C. A. Parker in the University of Western Australia, Prof. M. J. Dilworth, Murdoch University, WA and the CSIRO Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures, Brisbane, led initially by Dr D. O. Norris and later by Dr R. A. Date. Also, State Departments of Agriculture (or Primary Industries) were involved at various times and to varying degrees, especially towards the end of the period concerned.
2. Estimates given respectively by O. Bockman and D. Kass in I. R. Kennedy and E. C. Cocking (eds) Biological Nitrogen Fixation: the Global Challenge & Future Needs (Sydney: Sunfix Press, 1997).
3. M. B. Peoples, J. Brockwell, and F. J. Bergersen, 'Factors affecting nitrogen fixation: scope for improvement' in Transfer of Biologicallyfixed Nitrogen to Wheat, ed. J. F. Angus. (Canberra: GRDC, 1992), pp. 21-32.
4. Lloyd Evans, 'Otto Herzberg Frankel 1911-1998', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (4) (1999), 495-516.
5. Lloyd Evans, 'Otto Herzberg Frankel 1911-1998', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (4) (1999), 495-516. Ibid.
6. Frank Fenner, History of Microbiology in Australia, (Canberra: Australian Society for Microbiology Inc., 1990), pp. 124-57
7. C. M. Donald and C. H. Williams, 'Fertility and productivity of a podzolic soil as influenced by subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) ', Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 5 (1954), 664-87;
8. C. M. Donald, 'The impact of cheap nitrogen', Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, 26 (1960), 319-38.
9. Dr J. E. Falk, FAA, Head of the Biochemistry Section 1954-62;
10. Chief, Division of Plant Industry, 1962-72.
11. Waters et al., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 95 (1998), 12038-42, have claimed that alanine, not ammonia, is the primary nitrogen fixation product of soybean bacteroids. This is under intense investigation at the time of writing but has not been substantiated so far.
12. Later Sir Robert Price, Chairman of the CSIRO Executive 1970-7.
13. M. J. Thomas, 'Peterhouse, the Royal Society and Molecular Biology', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 54 (2000), 380.