Janet Irene Sprent, FRSE OBE (born 1934) is a British botanical scientist, and emeritus professor at University of Dundee.
[1] After graduating from Imperial College London in 1954 with a BSc and ARCS,[2] Sprent worked for a year at Rothamsted Experimental Station before undertaking a PhD at the University of Tasmania.
She taught botany for two years at Rochester Grammar School before being awarded a lectureship at Goldsmiths College in 1960.
Sprent's primary research interests lie in the field of nitrogen fixation in legumes.
In recognition of the contribution she has made to the understanding of nitrogen fixation in legume symbioses Sprent was awarded in 1988 with a Doctor of Science degree by the University of London and, in 2006, an honorary Doctor of Agriculture from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.