# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Plant, soil, and microbial sciences)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.

## Plant, soil, and microbial sciences

| Name | Institution | Year |
| Elizabeth Ainsworth | United States Department of Agriculture | 2020 |
| Richard Amasino | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2006 |
| Charles Arntzen | Arizona State University | 1983 |
| John D. Axtell (d. 2000) | Purdue University | 1982 |
| Julia Bailey-Serres | University of California, Riverside | 2016 |
| Stanley Barber (d. 2002) | Purdue University | 1987 |
| Alice Barkan | University of Oregon | 2020 |
| Roger Beachy | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | 1997 |
| Jeffrey Bennetzen | University of Georgia | 2004 |
| James Birchler | University of Georgia | 2011 |
| Norman Borlaug (d. 2009) | Sasakawa Africa Association | 1968 |
| Myron Brakke (d. 2007) | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 1974 |
| John Bremner (d. 2007) | Iowa State University | 1984 |
| Steven P. Briggs | University of California, San Diego | 2000 |
| Winston Brill | Winston J. Brill and Associates | 1989 |
| George Bruening (d. 2023) | University of California, Davis | 1992 |
| Edward Buckler | Cornell University | 2014 |
| Martin Bukovac | Michigan State University | 1983 |
| Robert H. Burris (d. 2010) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1961 |
| Glenn Burton (d. 2005) | U.S. Department of Agriculture | 1975 |
| James C. Carrington | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | 2008 |
| Vicki Chandler | University of Arizona | 2002 |
| Te-Tzu Chang | International Rice Research Institute | 1994 |
| Xuemei Chen | Peking University | 2013 |
| Mary-Dell Chilton | Novartis Seeds, Inc. | 1985 |
| Adrienne Clarke | University of Melbourne | 1993 |
| C. Clark Cockerham (d. 1996) | North Carolina State University | 1974 |
| Luca Comai | University of California, Davis | 2023 |
| R. James Cook | Washington State University | 1993 |
| Sean Cutler | University of California, Riverside | 2018 |
| J. M. Daly (d. 1993) | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 1984 |
| Robert E. Davis (d. 2019) | Agricultural Research Service | 2005 |
| Dean DellaPenna | Michigan State University | 2021 |
| Deborah Delmer | Rockefeller Foundation | 2004 |
| Theodor Diener (d. 2023) | University of Maryland, College Park | 1977 |
| Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar | University of California, Davis | 2024 |
| Richard Dixon (biologist) | University of North Texas | 2007 |
| Xinnian Dong | Duke University | 2012 |
| Hugo K. Dooner | Rutgers University | 2007 |
| Jorge Dubcovsky | University of California, Davis | 2013 |
| Donald Duvick (d. 2006) | Iowa State University | 2002 |
| Robert L. Fischer | University of California, Berkeley | 2009 |
| Michael Freeling | University of California, Berkeley | 1994 |
| Wolf Frommer | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | 2024 |
| David T. Gibson (d. 2014) | University of Iowa | 2005 |
| James Giovannoni | Agricultural Research Service | 2016 |
| Robert Goldberg | University of California, Los Angeles | 2001 |
| Major Goodman | North Carolina State University | 1986 |
| Mary Lou Guerinot | Dartmouth College | 2016 |
| Sarah Hake | United States Department of Agriculture | 2009 |
| Arnel Hallauer | Iowa State University | 1989 |
| Andrew D. Hanson | University of Florida | 2024 |
| Jack Harlan (d. 1998) | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 1972 |
| Bryan Harrison | Scottish Crop Research Institute | 1998 |
| Maria Harrison | Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | 2019 |
| Sheng Yang He | Duke University | 2015 |
| Charles R. Henderson (d. 1989) | Cornell University | 1985 |
| Luis Herrera-Estrella | National Polytechnic Institute | 2003 |
| Takayoshi Higuchi | Kyoto University | 1991 |
| Carl Barton Huffaker (d. 1995) | University of California, Berkeley | 1982 |
| Steven Jacobsen | University of California, Los Angeles | 2011 |
| Jonathan D. G. Jones | University of East Anglia | 2015 |
| Kenneth Keegstra | Michigan State University | 2014 |
| Noel T. Keen (d. 2002) | University of California, Riverside | 1997 |
| Arthur Kelman (d. 2009) | North Carolina State University | 1976 |
| Allen Kerr | University of Adelaide | 1991 |
| Gurdev Khush | University of California, Davis | 1989 |
| T. Kent Kirk | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1988 |
| Todd Klaenhammer (d. 2021) | North Carolina State University | 2001 |
| Harry Klee | University of Florida | 2012 |
| Tsune Kosuge (d. 1988) | University of California, Davis | 1988 |
| Brian Larkins | University of Arizona | 1996 |
| Jan E. Leach | Colorado State University | 2021 |
| Johannes Lehmann | Cornell University | 2023 |
| Charles S. Levings (d. 2017) | North Carolina State University | 1987 |
| Steven Lindow | University of California, Berkeley | 1999 |
| Zachary Lippman | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | 2021 |
| David Lobell | Stanford University | 2023 |
| Philip F. Low (d. 1997) | Purdue University | 1992 |
| Gregory B. Martin | Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | 2022 |
| Susan McCouch | Cornell University | 2018 |
| Blake Meyers | University of California, Davis | 2022 |
| Richard Michelmore | University of California, Davis | 2024 |
| Oliver E. Nelson Jr. (d. 2001) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1972 |
| Eugene Nester | University of Washington | 1994 |
| William Ogren | U.S. Department of Agriculture | 1986 |
| Donald R. Ort | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 2017 |
| Stanley J. Peloquin (d. 2008) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1984 |
| Ronald L. Phillips (d. 2023) | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | 1991 |
| Craig S. Pikaard | Indiana University | 2017 |
| Charles M. Rick (d. 2002) | University of California, Davis | 1967 |
| Pamela Ronald | University of California, Davis | 2019 |
| Richard Evans Schultes (d. 2001) | Harvard University | 1971 |
| Kate Scow | University of California, Davis | 2022 |
| Ronald Sederoff | North Carolina State University | 1995 |
| Ernest Robert Sears (d. 1991) | University of Missouri | 1964 |
| Luis Sequeira (d. 2021) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1980 |
| Robert J. Shepherd | University of Kentucky | 1988 |
| George F. Sprague (d. 1998) | University of Illinois Chicago | 1968 |
| Brian Staskawicz | University of California, Berkeley | 1998 |
| M. S. Swaminathan | Centre for Research on Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development | 1977 |
| Champ Tanner (d. 1990) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1981 |
| Michael Thomashow | Michigan State University | 2003 |
| Koichiro Tsunewaki | Fukui Prefectural University | 1996 |
| Barbara Valent | Kansas State University | 2020 |
| James Van Etten | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2003 |
| Elizabeth Vierling | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 2023 |
| Daniel Voytas | University of Minnesota | 2019 |
| Cecil Wadleigh (d. 1997) | United States Department of Agriculture | 1973 |
| Paul Edward Waggoner (d. 2022) | Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station | 1978 |
| John Charles Walker (d. 1994) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1945 |
| Susan Wessler | University of California, Riverside | 1998 |
| Yasuyuki Yamada | Nara Institute of Science and Technology | 1999 |
| Martin Yanofsky | University of California, San Diego | 2008 |
| George A. Zentmyer (d. 2003) | University of California, Riverside | 1979 |
| Qifa Zhang | Huazhong Agricultural University | 2007 |
| Jian-Kang Zhu | Southern University of Science and Technology | 2010 |