Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Plants 2024 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Plants from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and three research articles will receive the award, which will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Dilantha Fernando.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Plants from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Candidates’ Requirements:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

Prizes:
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Plants in 2024 after peer review;
– Three research article awards: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Plants in 2024 after peer review.
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2024.

Kind regards,
Plants Editorial Office

 
Plants 2024 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Plants will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

22 pages, 7622 KiB  
Review
Natural Blues: Structure Meets Function in Anthocyanins
by Alan Houghton, Ingo Appelhagen and Cathie Martin
Plants 2021, 10(4), 726; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10040726 - 08 Apr 2021
19 pages, 8621 KiB  
Article
Screening for Higher Grain Yield and Biomass among Sixty Bread Wheat Genotypes Grown under Elevated CO2 and High-Temperature Conditions
by Emilio L. Marcos-Barbero, Pilar Pérez, Rafael Martínez-Carrasco, Juan B. Arellano and Rosa Morcuende
Plants 2021, 10(8), 1596; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10081596 - 03 Aug 2021
14 pages, 1987 KiB  
Article
Foliar Application of Different Vegetal-Derived Protein Hydrolysates Distinctively Modulates Tomato Root Development and Metabolism
by Angela Valentina Ceccarelli, Begoña Miras-Moreno, Valentina Buffagni, Biancamaria Senizza, Youry Pii, Mariateresa Cardarelli, Youssef Rouphael, Giuseppe Colla and Luigi Lucini
Plants 2021, 10(2), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020326 - 08 Feb 2021
16 pages, 2573 KiB  
Article
Identification and Mapping of Tomato Genome Loci Controlling Tolerance and Resistance to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus
by Avner Zinger, Moshe Lapidot, Arye Harel, Adi Doron-Faigenboim, Dana Gelbart and Ilan Levin
Plants 2021, 10(1), 179; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10010179 - 19 Jan 2021

Winner

Fermín Morales
Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain
Gabriella Pocsfalvi
Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, Research Division Naples, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
Elisa Garzo
Departamento de Protección Vegetal, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain
Cinzia Margherita Bertea
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, 10123 Turin, Italy

Winner

22 pages, 4661 KiB  
Article
Differences in the Abundance of Auxin Homeostasis Proteins Suggest Their Central Roles for In Vitro Tissue Differentiation in Coffea arabica
by Ana O. Quintana-Escobar, Hugo A. Méndez-Hernández, Rosa M. Galaz-Ávalos, José M. Elizalde-Contreras, Francisco A. Reyes-Soria, Victor Aguilar-Hernández, Eliel Ruíz-May and Víctor M. Loyola-Vargas
Plants 2021, 10(12), 2607; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10122607 - 27 Nov 2021

Winner

María Dolores Ibáñez and María Amparo Blázquez
Departament de Farmacologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de València, Avd. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/7/4/79
Lazar Novaković
La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/7/4/89
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