Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Agronomy 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 in Agronomy were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, four winners were selected.

One Review:
Milk Thistle (Silybum Marianum L.) as a Novel Multipurpose Crop for Agriculture in Marginal Environments: A Review
By Roberto Marceddu, Lucia Dinolfo, Alessandra Carrubba, Mauro Sarno and Giuseppe Di Miceli
Agronomy 2022, 12(3), 729; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030729

Three Articles:
Benchmark of Deep Learning and a Proposed HSV Colour Space Models for the Detection and Classification of Greenhouse Tomato
By Germano Moreira, Sandro Augusto Magalhães, Tatiana Pinho, Filipe Neves dos Santos and Mário Cunha
Agronomy 2022, 12(2), 356; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020356

Lignin–Chitosan Nanocarriers for the Delivery of Bioactive Natural Products against Wood-Decay Phytopathogens
By Eva Sánchez-Hernández, Natalia Langa-Lomba, Vicente González-García, José Casanova-Gascón, Jesús Martín-Gil, Alberto Santiago-Aliste, Sergio Torres-Sánchez and Pablo Martín-Ramos
Agronomy 2022, 12(2), 461; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020461

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Improve Growth, Photosynthetic Activity, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Ecolly under Drought Stress
By Qiuhong Ye, Hua Wang and Hua Li
Agronomy 2022, 12(2), 1563; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12071563

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Agronomy in 2024 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Agronomy 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Agronomy.

Kind regards,
Agronomy Editorial Office

 
Agronomy 2022 Best Paper Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
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Winner

25 pages, 1600 KiB  
Review
Milk Thistle (Silybum Marianum L.) as a Novel Multipurpose Crop for Agriculture in Marginal Environments: A Review
by Roberto Marceddu, Lucia Dinolfo, Alessandra Carrubba, Mauro Sarno and Giuseppe Di Miceli
Agronomy 2022, 12(3), 729; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030729 - 17 Mar 2022
23 pages, 56779 KiB  
Article
Benchmark of Deep Learning and a Proposed HSV Colour Space Models for the Detection and Classification of Greenhouse Tomato
by Germano Moreira, Sandro Augusto Magalhães, Tatiana Pinho, Filipe Neves dos Santos and Mário Cunha
Agronomy 2022, 12(2), 356; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020356 - 31 Jan 2022
16 pages, 3119 KiB  
Article
Lignin–Chitosan Nanocarriers for the Delivery of Bioactive Natural Products against Wood-Decay Phytopathogens
by Eva Sánchez-Hernández, Natalia Langa-Lomba, Vicente González-García, José Casanova-Gascón, Jesús Martín-Gil, Alberto Santiago-Aliste, Sergio Torres-Sánchez and Pablo Martín-Ramos
Agronomy 2022, 12(2), 461; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020461 - 12 Feb 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Leslie Ann Weston Chairman
Charles Sturt University
Dr. Gianni Bellocchi
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Prof. Peng Fu
Harrisburg University

Winner

30 pages, 2923 KiB  
Review
Factors That Influence Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Soils as Well as Their Representation in Simulation Models: A Review
by Cong Wang, Barbara Amon, Karsten Schulz and Bano Mehdi
Agronomy 2021, 11(4), 770; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040770 - 14 Apr 2021
12 pages, 311 KiB  
Article
The Most Important Fungal Diseases of Cereals—Problems and Possible Solutions
by Marcin Różewicz, Marta Wyzińska and Jerzy Grabiński
Agronomy 2021, 11(4), 714; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040714 - 09 Apr 2021
23 pages, 2881 KiB  
Article
Land Degradation Vulnerability Mapping in a Newly-Reclaimed Desert Oasis in a Hyper-Arid Agro-Ecosystem Using AHP and Geospatial Techniques
by Ahmed S. Abuzaid, Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman, Mohamed E. Fadl and Antonio Scopa
Agronomy 2021, 11(7), 1426; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11071426 - 17 Jul 2021
18 pages, 1881 KiB  
Article
Genomic Selection and Genome-Wide Association Studies for Grain Protein Content Stability in a Nested Association Mapping Population of Wheat
by Karansher S. Sandhu, Paul D. Mihalyov, Megan J. Lewien, Michael O. Pumphrey and Arron H. Carter
Agronomy 2021, 11(12), 2528; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11122528 - 13 Dec 2021

Winner

Verónica Saiz-Rubio
Agricultural Robotics Laboratory (ARL), Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, s/n. 46022 Valencia, Spain
Feibo Wu
Institute of Crop Science, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Maria Manuela Rigano
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy
Luis J. Belmonte-Ureña
Department of Economy and Business, Research Centre CIAIMBITAL. University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain

Award Committee

Prof. Peter Langridge Chairman
University of Adelaide

Winner

Klára Bradáčová
Institute of Crop Science (340h), Universität Hohenheim, Fruwirthstraße 20, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
Giulia Franzoni
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/6/306

Winner

Giuseppe Colla
Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/8/7/126
Marino B. Arnao
Department of Plant Biology (Plant Physiology), Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100-Murcia, Spain paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/8/4/33
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