Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Plants 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, as well as their citations and downloads, the four winning papers, nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Dilantha Fernando, were selected.

One Review:

Photosynthetic Metabolism under Stressful Growth Conditions as a Bases for Crop Breeding and Yield Improvement
by Fermín Morales, María Ancín, Dorra Fakhet, Jon González-Torralba, Angie L. Gámez, Amaia Seminario, David Soba, Sinda Ben Mariem, Miguel Garriga and Iker Aranjuelo
Plants 2020, 9(1), 88; doi:10.3390/plants9010088

Three Research Articles:

Plant Roots Release Small Extracellular Vesicles with Antifungal Activity
by Monica De Palma, Alfredo Ambrosone, Antonietta Leone, Pasquale Del Gaudio, Michelina Ruocco, Lilla Turiák, Ramesh Bokka, Immacolata Fiume, Marina Tucci and Gabriella Pocsfalvi
Plants 2020, 9(12), 1777; doi:10.3390/plants9121777

Feeding Behavior and Virus-transmission Ability of Insect Vectors Exposed to Systemic Insecticides
by Elisa Garzo, Aránzazu Moreno, María Plaza and Alberto Fereres
Plants 2020, 9(7), 895; doi:10.3390/plants9070895

Transcriptome Analyses and Antioxidant Activity Profiling Reveal the Role of a Lignin-Derived Biostimulant Seed Treatment in Enhancing Heat Stress Tolerance in Soybean
by Cristina Campobenedetto, Giuseppe Mannino, Chiara Agliassa, Alberto Acquadro, Valeria Contartese, Christian Garabello and Cinzia Margherita Bertea
Plants 2020, 9(10), 1308; doi:10.3390/plants9101308

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and the chance to publish a paper free of charge in Plants in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We also wish to thank all the nominated research groups of the exceptional papers above for their contributions to Plants, and the Award Committee for voting and for their assistance with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Dilantha Fernando, Plants

 
Plants 2022 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 - 8 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 - 3 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 - 8 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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