Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Plants 2021 Best Paper Award for Young Investigator. All papers published in the "Young Investigators in Plant Sciences" Special Issue from 14 Jul 2021 to 20 Jul 2022 in Plants were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, one winner was selected.

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; doi:10.3390/plants10122607

The winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Plants in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winner of Plants 2021 Best Paper Award for Young Investigator. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Plants.

Kind regards,
Plants Editorial Office

 
Plants 2021 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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