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Plants 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Winner announcement: 31 March 2025
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Irina Neta Gostin
Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi, Romania
Ricardo Gil-Ortiz
Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Javier Canales
Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Brigitta Tóth
University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Martina Varga
Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Osijek, Croatia
Winner
Dr. Andrea Mastinu
Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Division of Pharmacology, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Dr. Edyta Paczos-Grzeda
Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agrobioengineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Dr. Alicia Ayerdi Gotor
Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle, AGHYLE, UP 2018.C101, 60026 Beauvais, France
Dr. Narayan Bhusal
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
Dr. Mohsen Hesami
Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Winner
Enrico Perrino
CIHEAM, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, 70010 Valenzano, Italy
Edyta Paczos-Grzeda
Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agrobioengineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Vishnu Rajput
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Lakkakula Satish
Deptartment of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Robert Philipp Wagensommer
Department of Biology, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, I-70125 Bari, Italy
Winner
arián Brestič
Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, 94976 Nitra, Slovakia
Thomas J. Orton
Department of Plant Biology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 08901 New Jersey, USA
Giampiero Cai
Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Stefan Simm
Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
María Pérez-Fernández
Professor of Ecology. Department of Physical, Chemical and Natural Systems. University Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Seville, Spain
Winner
Csengele Barta
Missouri Western State University, US
Hélia Cardoso
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Rupesh Deshmukh
University Laval, Canada
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