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- About
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- Email Address
- g.norton@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272409
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
BSc (Hons), Molecular Biology, University of Hertfordshire, 2001
PhD, Plant Molecular Biology, University of Hertfordshire, 2005
Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen, 2005-2013
Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, 2013-2017
Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, 2017- 2021
Reader, University of Aberdeen 2021-present
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Schools Examination Officer
- External Memberships
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Editor for Agronomy – http://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy
Editor for Exposure and Health - https://link.springer.com/journal/12403
Guest editor of the Agronomy special issues “Accumulation and Distribution of Elements in Crop Plants” - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/accumulation-elements
- Research
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Research Overview
My research interests include the accumulation and distribution of elements in plants and their impact on human health and food security, with a focus on arsenic and beneficial minerals such as zinc. I have been integrating elemental concentrations with genetic mapping, genomics, and transcriptomics, with the aim of identifying genes and the mechanisms responsible for the accumulation of elements in plants. I also have an interest in understanding the processes involved in arsenic (and other metals) cycling in the environment.
Current Research
Current research group.
PhD students.
Rosie Boyko
Alysha Knight
Juani Hallat-Sanchez
Yehia Hazzazi
Former research group.
PhD student
Zainab Abubakar Adamu – “Genetics of drought resistance in rice: Role of aquaporins on root hydraulic conductance and water use traits in rice”.
Mohammad Sayedul Islam – “Physiological and Molecular characterization of adaptation to alternative wetting and drying in Bangladeshi rice cultivars”
Partha Talukdar – “The transfer mechanism of arsenic in rice from the shoot to the grain during grain filling.”
Tanvir Chowdhury – “Biogeochemical cycling of elements in Bangladeshi soils”
Munmi Phukon - "Transcriptomics study of rice in response to alternate wetting and drying irrigation”
Natasha Falconer – “Rice: balancing sustainable agricultural production methods and cultivar diversity with nutrient content and contaminant levels - a Bangladeshi dietary modelling proof of concept project"
Barry Nourice - "Impact of salinity on agriculture in the Seychelles"
Jonathan Cope – “Introgressing resilience and resource use efficiency traits from Scots Bere to elite barley”
Research technician
Claire Deacon
Luke Harrold
Funding and Grants
BBSRC funded project “A genetic dissection of traits required for sustainable water use in rice using Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)” joint with Lancaster, the International Rice Research Institute and Bangladesh Agricultral University (Mymensingh). £1.1 M with £922 K to Aberdeen. Co-I (P.I. Adam Price). Start February 2012, end January 2016.
Scottish Funding Council - via Food and Drink Network "Identifying environmental factors which cause variation in fatty acid composition in rapeseed oil". £5K. P.I. (Co-I's; Prof Paul Hallett and Prof David Salt).
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Programme Coordinator:
BSc Environmental Science
MSc Environmental Science (Joint with Dr Vasilis Louca)
MSc Environmental Management
Course coordinator:
EV3801 / EV5800: Environmental Analysis
SS5805: Land Use and the Changing Environment on Deeside (Joint with Prof. Graeme Paton)
Course contribution
BI1511 Ecology and Environmental Science
PL3309 / SS5305: Soils for Food Security
- Publications
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Simultaneous stimulation of arsenic methylation and inhibition of cadmium bioaccumulation in rice grain using zero valent iron and alternate wetting and drying water management
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 711, 134696Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Impacts of Applying Metal(loid) Enriched Wood Ash to Soils on the Growth and Elemental Accumulation of Rice
Exposure and Health, vol. 11, pp. 311–324Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGenetic loci regulating arsenic content in rice grains when grown flooded or under alternative wetting and drying irrigation
Rice, vol. 12, 54Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://snp-seek.irri.org/
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12284-019-0307-9
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12630/1/Genetic_loci_regulating_arsenic_content_in_rice_grains_when_grown_flooded_or_under_alternative_wetting_and_drying_irrigation.pdf
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Genotypic differences in shoot silicon concentration and the impact on grain arsenic concentration in rice
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, vol. 182, no. 2, pp. 265-276Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201800373
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13718/1/jpln.201800373.pdf
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Rice minerals and heavy metal(oid)s
Rice: Chemistry and Technology. Fourth edition. Elsevier, pp. 169-194, 26 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811508-4.00006-X
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Alternate wetting and drying in Bangladesh: Water saving farming practice and the socioeconomic barriers to its adoption
Food and Energy Security, vol. 7, no. 4, 00149Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComparison of on-site field measured inorganic arsenic in rice with laboratory measurements using a field deployable method: Method validation
Food Chemistry, vol. 263, pp. 180-185Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGenome Wide Association mapping of grain and straw biomass traits in the rice Bengal and Assam Aus Panel (BAAP) grown under alternate wetting and drying and permanently flooded irrigation
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 9, 1223Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInteraction between contrasting rice genotypes and soil physical conditions induced by hydraulic stresses typical of alternate wetting and drying irrigation of soil
Plant and Soil, vol. 430, no. 1-2, pp. 233-243Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPhysiographical variability in arsenic dynamics in Bangladeshi soils
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 612, pp. 1365-1372Contributions to Journals: Articles