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Plant Science and Agronomy
UK
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
140
Citations
72582
World Ranking
27
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Steve P. McGrath is affiliated with Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom. Their research spans broad areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Soil Science, Plant Science, Pollution, Environmental Engineering, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their work covers multiple key topics including:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Phosphorus and nutrient management

McGrath has published extensively, contributing to several frequent publication venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports (7 publications)
  • European Journal of Soil Science (3 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (3 publications)
  • European Journal of Agronomy (3 publications)
  • SOIL (2 publications)

Recent representative papers include:

  • Global soil pollution by toxic metals threatens agriculture and human health, 2025, Science
  • African soil properties and nutrients mapped at 30 m spatial resolution using two-scale ensemble machine learning, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The nutritional quality of cereals varies geospatially in Ethiopia and Malawi, 2021, Nature
  • Plastics in biosolids from 1950 to 2016: A function of global plastic production and consumption, 2021, Water Research
  • What is a good level of soil organic matter? An index based on organic carbon to clay ratio, 2020, European Journal of Soil Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McGrath include:

  • Stephan M. Haefele (28 joint publications)
  • Keith Shepherd (12 joint publications)
  • Martin R. Broadley (10 joint publications)
  • Javier Hernández-Allica (9 joint publications)
  • Erick K. Towett (8 joint publications)

McGrath's research integrates soil science with environmental and plant sciences, addressing issues from soil pollution and nutrient dynamics to the geospatial variation in crop nutritional quality. Their work contributes to understanding the environmental impacts affecting agriculture and human health through studies on soil chemistry, mapping, and nutrient management.

Best Publications

  • Toxicity of heavy metals to microorganisms and microbial processes in agricultural soils: a review.

    Ken E Giller;Ernst Witter;Steve P Mcgrath

  • Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies

    Fang-Jie Zhao;Fang-Jie Zhao;Yibing Ma;Yong-Guan Zhu;Zhong Tang

  • Metal hyperaccumulator plants: a review of the ecology and physiology of a biological resource for phytoremediation of metal-polluted soils

    Alan J. M. Baker;S. P. McGrath;Roger D. Reeves;J. A. C. Smith

  • Transporters of arsenite in rice and their role in arsenic accumulation in rice grain

    Jian Feng Ma;Naoki Yamaji;Namiki Mitani;Xiao-Yan Xu

  • Phytoextraction of metals and metalloids from contaminated soils.

    Steve P McGrath;Fang-Jie Zhao

  • Arsenic uptake and metabolism in plants.

    F. J. Zhao;J. F. Ma;A. A. Meharg;S. P. McGrath

  • Arsenic as a Food Chain Contaminant: Mechanisms of Plant Uptake and Metabolism and Mitigation Strategies

    Fang-Jie Zhao;Steve P McGrath;Andrew A Meharg

  • The possibility of in situ heavy metal decontamination of polluted soils using crops of metal-accumulating plants

    A.J.M. Baker;S.P. McGrath;C.M.D. Sidoli;R.D. Reeves

  • Cellular compartmentation of cadmium and zinc in relation to other elements in the hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri.

    Hendrik Küpper;Enzo Lombi;Fang Jie Zhao;Steve P. McGrath

  • Phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils: natural hyperaccumulation versus chemically enhanced phytoextraction.

    E. Lombi;F.J. Zhao;S.J. Dunham;S.P. McGrath

  • Selenium uptake, translocation and speciation in wheat supplied with selenate or selenite.

    Hua-Fen Li;Hua-Fen Li;Steve P. McGrath;Fang-Jie Zhao

  • Mechanisms of Arsenic Hyperaccumulation in Pteris vittata. Uptake Kinetics, Interactions with Phosphate, and Arsenic Speciation

    Junru Wang;Fang-Jie Zhao;Andrew A. Meharg;Andrea Raab

  • Plant and rhizosphere processes involved in phytoremediation of metal-contaminated soils

    S. P. McGrath;F. J. Zhao;E. Lombi

  • Growing Rice Aerobically Markedly Decreases Arsenic Accumulation

    X. Y. Xu;S. P. McGrath;A. A. Meharg;F. J. Zhao

  • Soil pH Determines Microbial Diversity and Composition in the Park Grass Experiment

    Kateryna Zhalnina;Raquel Dias;Patricia Dörr de Quadros;Patricia Dörr de Quadros;Austin Davis-Richardson

  • Leaching of heavy metals from contaminated soils using EDTA

    B Sun;F.J Zhao;E Lombi;S.P McGrath

  • Phytoremediation of metals, metalloids, and radionuclides

    McGrath Sp;Zhao Fj;Lombi E

  • Long-term effects of metals in sewage sludge on soils, microorganisms and plants

    Steve P. McGrath;Amar M. Chaudri;Ken E. Giller

  • Effect of metal toxicity on the size of the soil microbial biomass

    P. C. Brookes;S. P. McGRATH

  • A new method to measure effective soil solution concentration predicts copper availability to plants

    Hao Zhang;Fang-Jie Zhao;Bo Sun;William Davison

  • Cellular Compartmentation of Zinc in Leaves of the Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens

    Hendrik Küpper;Fang Jie Zhao;Steve P. McGrath

  • Biofortification of UK food crops with selenium

    Martin R. Broadley;Philip J. White;Rosie J. Bryson;Mark C. Meacham

  • Variation in mineral micronutrient concentrations in grain of wheat lines of diverse origin

    F.J. Zhao;Y.H. Su;S.J. Dunham;M. Rakszegi

  • Sulphur assimilation and effects on yield and quality of wheat.

    FJ Zhao;MJ Hawkesford;SP McGrath

  • Plant and rhizosphere processes involved in phytoremediation of metal-contaminated soils.

    S. P. McGrath;F. J. Zhao;E. Lombi;D. S. Powlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Fang-Jie Zhao
Fang-Jie Zhao Nanjing Agricultural University
Enzo Lombi
Enzo Lombi University of South Australia
Ken E. Giller
Ken E. Giller Wageningen University & Research
Malcolm J. Hawkesford
Malcolm J. Hawkesford Rothamsted Research
Penny R. Hirsch
Penny R. Hirsch Rothamsted Research
B. J. Chambers
B. J. Chambers Mansfield University
Alan J. M. Baker
Alan J. M. Baker University of Queensland
Mike J. McLaughlin
Mike J. McLaughlin University of Adelaide
Graeme I. Paton
Graeme I. Paton University of Aberdeen
Andrew A. Meharg
Andrew A. Meharg Queen's University Belfast

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