
Contact Information
1102 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Crop Sciences
Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
Associate Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Recent Publications
Asprooth, L., Arbuckle, J. G., Traldi, R., Church, S. P., Floress, K., Gramig, B. M., Margenot, A. J., Maynard, E. T., Thompson, A. W., Torres, A. P., Usher, E. M., Awashra, I., Pivaral, K., Woodings, F. S., & Prokopy, L. S. (2025). To diversify or not to diversify: A preliminary report on farmers' perspectives on diversification in the U.S. Midwest. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 40, Article e14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170525000043
Li, Z., Guan, K., Zhou, W., Peng, B., Nafziger, E. D., Grant, R. F., Jin, Z., Tang, J., Margenot, A. J., Lee, D., Bernacchi, C. J., DeLucia, E. H., Ciampitti, I., Hu, T., Ye, L., Till, J., & Jia, M. (2025). Comparing continuous-corn and soybean-corn rotation cropping systems in the U.S. central Midwest: Trade-offs among crop yield, nutrient losses, and change in soil organic carbon. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 393, Article 109739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109739
Li, C., Wade, J., Vollbracht, K., Hooper, D. G., Wills, S. A., & Margenot, A. J. (2025). Do chromogenic assays of soil enzyme activities need buffers? More disadvantages than advantages of modified universal buffer in the para-nitrophenyl-based assay of phosphomonoesterase and β-glucosidase activities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 202, Article 109704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109704
Li, C., Wade, J., & Margenot, A. J. (2025). In pursuit of soil P mineralization: A review and synthesis of radioisotopic labeling techniques. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 202, Article 109701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109701
Margenot, A. J., Chatterjee, N., & Li, C. (2025). Radioisotopic labeling reveals inaccuracy of phosphorus use efficiency of ammonium phosphate fertilizers calculated by the difference method. Agricultural and Environmental Letters, 10(1), Article e70022. https://doi.org/10.1002/ael2.70022