Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the following papers have been selected to receive the Agronomy Best Paper Awards of 2019:

Article
Title: Microbial Consortia versus Single-Strain Inoculants: An Advantage in PGPM-Assisted Tomato Production?
Authors: Klára Bradáčová, Andrea S. Florea, Asher Bar-Tal, Dror Minz, Uri Yermiyahu, Raneen Shawahna, Judith Kraut-Cohen, Avihai Zolti, Ran Erel, K. Dietel, Markus Weinmann, Beate Zimmermann, Nils Berger, Uwe Ludewig, Guenter Neumann, and Gheorghe Poşta
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/2/105

Review
Title: Biostimulants Application in Horticultural Crops under Abiotic Stress Conditions
Authors: Roberta Bulgari, Giulia Franzoni, and Antonio Ferrante
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/6/306

We believe that the above papers represent valuable contributions to Agronomy and the scientific literature and warmly congratulate Ms. Klára Bradáčová and Dr. Giulia Franzoni and their colleagues. In recognition of their accomplishments, each of the corresponding authors will be granted a certificate and the chance to publish two papers (either review papers or research articles) free of charge in Agronomy by the end of 2020 (after the completion of the normal peer-review process).

 
Agronomy 2019 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Agronomy will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

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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