Jeanette Norton
Tracks the functional genes of bacteria and archaea driving the agricultural nitrogen cycle, especially ammonia oxidation.
The record
- Standing
- active practice
- Based
- Utah State University · United States
- Focus area
- Agricultural Genomics
- Works on
- nitrogen cycle, ammonia-oxidizing archaea, nitrification genes, soil health assessment, functional genomics.
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The work
Professor of Soil Microbiology in the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate at Utah State University and a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. Internationally known for methods to analyze the soil microbiome and its roles in nitrogen and carbon cycling, with a focus on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in agricultural soils. Co-editor of the 2026 volume Measuring and Assessing the Biological Health of Soils. Trained with Mary Firestone at UC Berkeley.
Where to read them
- Jeanette Norton — lab or personal site
- Norton, Smith & Firestone (1990) Carbon flow in the rhizosphere of ponderosa pine seedlings
- Measuring and Assessing the Biological Health of Soils (2026, editor)
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