3 July 2025
Plants Best Paper Award—Winners Announced

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Plants (ISSN: 2223-7747) is pleased to announce the winners of the Plants 2023 Best Paper Award, selecting 3 research articles and 1 review among 4091 peer-reviewed papers published in Volume 12 of the journal. The decision was made by the committee based on an evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers and their number of citations and downloads.
We would like to congratulate the following winners:
“Environmental Factors Regulate Plant Secondary Metabolites”
by Mirwais M. Qaderi, Ashley B. Martel and Courtney A. Strugnell
Plants 2023, 12(3), 447; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12030447
“Multiplex CRISPR-Cas9 Gene-Editing Can Deliver Potato Cultivars with Reduced Browning and Acrylamide”
by Diem Nguyen Phuoc Ly, Sadia Iqbal,John Fosu-Nyarko, Stephen Milroy and Michael G. K. Jones
Plants 2023, 12(2), 379; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12020379
“Melatonin-Mediated Enhancement of Photosynthetic Capacity and Photoprotection Improves Salt Tolerance in Wheat”
by Di Yan, Jiajie Wang, Zhenzong Lu, Rui Liu, Yue Hong, Baocai Su, Ye Wang, Zhen Peng, Chunxin Yu, Yuerong Gao, Ziyan Liu, Zhaoshi Xu, Liusheng Duan and Runzhi Li
Plants 2023, 12(23), 3984; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12233984
“Impacts of Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) on Lettuce (Lactuca sativa)—Evidence for RF-EMF Interference with Plant Stress Responses”
by Nam Trung Tran, Luca Jokic, Julian Keller, Jens Uwe Geier and Ralf Kaldenhoff
Plants 2023, 12(5), 1082; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12051082
The announcement of the winners can be found on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/awards/2889.