Janet Sprent

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Janet Sprent
Born1934 (age 89–90)
NationalityBritish
Alma materImperial College London, University of Tasmania, University of London
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBotanist
InstitutionsUniversity of Dundee

Janet Irene Sprent,

emeritus professor at University of Dundee.[1]

Education and career

After graduating from

Biological Sciences
from 1992 to 1995. She served as deputy principal of Dundee University from 1995 until her retiral in 1998.

Research areas

Sprent's primary research interests lie in the field of

legumes
.

Awards and recognition

In recognition of the contribution she has made to the understanding of nitrogen fixation in legume symbioses Sprent was awarded in 1988 with a

Burkholderia sprentiae (later renamed Paraburkholderia sprentiae) was named after her.[1][4][5] She was awarded Honorary Membership of the British Ecological Society and, in 2021, the Journal of Ecology commissioned its inaugural Sprent Review, a series of annual, commissioned reviews in ecological science, named in honour of her.[6]

Bibliography

  • Sprent, Janet (2009), Legume Nodulation: A Global Perspective, Wiley-Blackwell
  • Dilworth, Michael J.; James, Euan K.; Sprent, Janet; Newton, William E. (2008), Nitrogen-Fixing Leguminous Symbioses (Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress), Springer
  • Sprent, Janet (2001), Nodulation in Legumes, Royal Botanic Gardens
  • Sprent, Peter; Sprent, Janet I. (1995), Suilven's World: A Land and Its People, Northwest Press
  • Sprent, Janet I.; McKey, D. (1994), Advances in Legume Systematics. Part 5: The Nitrogen Factor, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Sprent, Janet I.; Sprent, Peter (1990), Nitrogen Fixing Organisms: Pure and Applied Aspects, Springer
  • Sprent, Janet (1987), The Ecology of the Nitrogen Cycle, Cambridge University Press
  • Sprent, Janet (1979), Biology of Nitrogen-fixing Organisms (European plant biology series), McGraw Hill

References

  1. ^ a b c "Professor Janet Sprent OBE, FRSE". Dundee University. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1111/nph.14618
  3. ^ "Professor Janet Sprent", The Royal Society of Edinburgh, retrieved 21 February 2023
  4. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.048777-0
  5. PMID 25566316
    .
  6. ^ Robins, Rhiannon (5 March 2021), "Sprent Reviews", British Ecological Society, retrieved 21 February 2023
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