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Jeanette M. Norton is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with 24 publications in each field.

Their work covers a range of subfields that include Plant Science, Ecology, Soil Science, Molecular Biology, and Environmental Chemistry. The scientist's research themes focus on understanding soil and microbial processes, plant-soil interactions, and ecological dynamics.

Main topics addressed in their studies comprise:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal

Jeanette M. Norton has published in several scientific journals, with frequent contributions to Frontiers in Microbiology and HortScience. Other publication venues include Nature, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Cell Reports.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Norton include:

  • "Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics," 2023, Nature
  • "Physical mechanisms for soil moisture effects on microbial carbon-use efficiency in a sandy loam soil in the western United States," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes," 2022, Cell Reports
  • "Soil health spatial-temporal variation influence soil security on Midwestern, U.S. farms," 2021, Soil Security
  • "Plant-soil feedbacks help explain biodiversity-productivity relationships," 2021, Communications Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including Yang Ouyang, Leslie E. Forero, Andrew Kulmatiski, Josephine Grenzer, and Mussie Y. Habteselassie.

Best Publications

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Complete Genome Sequence of the Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium and Obligate Chemolithoautotroph Nitrosomonas europaea

    Patrick Chain;Patrick Chain;Jane Lamerdin;Jane Lamerdin;Frank Larimer;Frank Larimer;Warren Regala;Warren Regala

  • Diversity of ammonia monooxygenase operon in autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria.

    Jeanette M. Norton;Javier J. Alzerreca;Yuichi Suwa;Martin G. Klotz

  • Controls and Adaptive Management of Nitrification in Agricultural Soils.

    Jeanette M Norton;Yang Ouyang

  • Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are more responsive than archaea to nitrogen source in an agricultural soil

    Yang Ouyang;Jeanette M. Norton;John M. Stark;Jennifer R. Reeve

  • Complete genome sequence of Nitrosospira multiformis, an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from the soil environment.

    Jeanette M. Norton;Martin G. Klotz;Lisa Y. Stein;Daniel J. Arp

  • Regulation and Measurement of Nitrification in Terrestrial Systems

    Jeanette M. Norton;John M. Stark

  • Ammonium availability and temperature control contributions of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and archaea to nitrification in an agricultural soil

    Yang Ouyang;Jeanette M. Norton;John M. Stark

  • Whole‐genome analysis of the ammonia‐oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas eutropha C91: implications for niche adaptation

    Lisa Y. Stein;Daniel J. Arp;Paul M. Berube;Patrick S. G. Chain;Patrick S. G. Chain;Patrick S. G. Chain

  • Changes in crested wheatgrass root exudation caused by flood, drought, and nutrient stress.

    Amelia Henry;William Doucette;Jeanette Norton;Bruce Bugbee

  • Complete genome sequence of the marine, chemolithoautotrophic, ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosococcus oceani ATCC 19707.

    Martin G. Klotz;Daniel J. Arp;Patrick S. G. Chain;Patrick S. G. Chain;Amal F. El-Sheikh

  • N dynamics in the rhizosphere of Pinus ponderosa seedlings

    Jeanette M. Norton;Mary K. Firestone

  • Soil morphology and organic matter dynamics under cheatgrass and sagebrush-steppe plant communities

    Jay B Norton;Thomas A Monaco;Jeanette M Norton;Douglas A Johnson

  • Urease-encoding genes in ammonia-oxidizing bacteria.

    Teresa E. Koper;Amal F. El-Sheikh;Jeanette M. Norton;Martin G. Klotz

  • Carbon flow in the rhizosphere of ponderosa pine seedlings

    Jeanette M. Norton;Jeffrey L. Smith;Mary K. Firestone

  • Enhanced removal of polychlorinated biphenyls from alfalfa rhizosphere soil in a field study: The impact of a rhizobial inoculum

    Li Xu;Ying Teng;Zhen-Gao Li;Jeanette M. Norton

  • Contrasting responses of Intermountain West grasses to soil nitrogen

    Thomas A. Monaco;Douglas A. Johnson;Jeanette M. Norton;Thomas A. Jones

  • Microbial control of nitrate concentrations in an agricultural soil treated with dairy waste compost or ammonium fertilizer

    Wei Shi;Jeanette M. Norton

  • A gene encoding a membrane protein exists upstream of the amoA/amoB genes in ammonia oxidizing bacteria: a third member of the amo operon?

    Martin G. Klotz;Javier Alzerreca;Jeanette M. Norton

  • The gene encoding ammonia monooxygenase subunit A exists in three nearly identical copies in Nitrosospira sp. NpAV

    Jeanette M. Norton;Jackie M. Low;Martin G. Klotz

  • Nitrification in Agricultural Soils

    Jeanette M. Norton

  • Nitrification exhibits Haldane kinetics in an agricultural soil treated with ammonium sulfate or dairy-waste compost.

    Teresa E. Koper;John M. Stark;Mussie Y. Habteselassie;Mussie Y. Habteselassie;Jeanette M. Norton

  • Metabolic status of bacteria and fungi in the rhizosphere of ponderosa pine seedlings.

    Jeanette M. Norton;Mary K. Firestone

  • Ammonium-loaded clinoptilolite: a slow-release nitrogen fertilizer for sweet corn

    T. Scott Perrin;Daniel T. Drost;Janis L. Boettinger;Jeanette M. Norton

  • Microbial Nitrogen Transformations in Response to Treated Dairy Waste in Agricultural Soils

    Wei Shi;Bruce E. Miller;John M. Stark;Jeanette M. Norton

  • Gross Nitrogen Transformations in an Agricultural Soil after Repeated Dairy-Waste Application

    Mussie Y. Habteselassie;John M. Stark;Bruce E. Miller;Seth G. Thacker

  • Soil enzyme activities and abundance of microbial functional genes involved in nitrogen transformations in an organic farming system

    Yang Ouyang;Yang Ouyang;Jennifer R. Reeve;Jeanette M. Norton

  • Defining a realistic control for the chloroform fumigation-incubation method using microscopic counting and 14C-substrates

    William R. Horwath;Eldor A. Paul;David Harris;Jeanette M. Norton

  • Effects of aeration and moisture during windrow composting on the nitrogen fertilizer values of dairy waste composts

    Wei Shi;Jeanette M. Norton;Bruce E. Miller;Michael G. Pace

  • Soil Nitrogen and Nutrient Dynamics after Repeated Application of Treated Dairy-Waste

    Mussie Y. Habteselassie;Bruce E. Miller;Seth G. Thacker;John M. Stark

  • Short-Term Nitrogen Fertilization Affects Microbial Community Composition and Nitrogen Mineralization Functions in an Agricultural Soil

    Yang Ouyang;Yang Ouyang;Yang Ouyang;Jeanette M. Norton

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin G. Klotz
Martin G. Klotz City University of New York
Patrick S. G. Chain
Patrick S. G. Chain Los Alamos National Laboratory
John M. Stark
John M. Stark Utah State University
Daniel J. Arp
Daniel J. Arp Oregon State University
Bruce Bugbee
Bruce Bugbee Utah State University
Lisa Y. Stein
Lisa Y. Stein University of Alberta
Amelia Henry
Amelia Henry International Rice Research Institute
Frank W. Larimer
Frank W. Larimer Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Loren Hauser
Loren Hauser Digital Infuzion (United States)
Andrew Kulmatiski
Andrew Kulmatiski Utah State University

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