Awards and Prizes
Award for an early-career scientist
Functional Plant Biology is pleased to offer an annual award for the best paper published in the Journal in each calendar year by an early-career scientist.
The award carries a prize of a personal one-year online subscription to FPB, a AU$250 book voucher from CSIRO Publishing and a certificate.
To be eligible for the prize, the first author must be enrolled for a PhD, or be within ten years post-PhD, and a member of the ASPS (or their national equivalent).
Nominations are judged on the basis of reviewers’ reports, and the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists.
The winner of the award will be announced in an early issue of the journal each year.
Winners
- 2022: Babar Shahzad
Unravelling the physiological basis of salinity stress tolerance in cultivated and wild rice species
Babar Shahzad, Ping Yun , Lana Shabala, Meixue Zhou, Gothandapani Sellamuthu, Gayatri Venkataraman, Zhong-Hua Chen and Sergey Shabala
pp. 351-364
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- 2021: Akitomo Kawasaki
The microbiomes on the roots of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rice (Oryza sativa L.) exhibit significant differences in structure between root types and along root axes
Akitomo Kawasaki, Paul G. Dennis, Christian Forstner, Anil K. H. Raghavendra, Alan E. Richardson, Michelle Watt, Ulrike Mathesius, Matthew Gilliham and Peter R. Ryan
pp. 871-888
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- 2020: Ximeng Li
Drought resistance of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is promoted by early stomatal closure and leaf shedding
Ximeng Li, Renee Smith, Brendan Choat and David T. Tissue
pp. 91-98
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- 2019: Karen M. Frick
The role of jasmonate signalling in quinolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis, wounding and aphid predation response in narrow-leafed lupin
Karen M. Frick, Rhonda C. Foley, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Karam B. Singh and Lars G. Kamphuis
pp. 443-454
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- 2018: Chung-Chi (Alex) Wu
Simulating daily field crop canopy photosynthesis: an integrated software package
Alex Wu, Al Doherty, Graham D. Farquhar and Graeme L. Hammer
pp. 362-377
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- 2017: Getnet Dino Adem
Expressing Arabidopsis thaliana V-ATPase subunit C in barley (Hordeum vulgare) improves plant performance under saline condition by enabling better osmotic adjustment
Getnet D. Adem, Stuart J. Roy, Yuqing Huang, Zhong-Hua Chen, Feifei Wang, Meixue Zhou, John P. Bowman, Paul Holford and Sergey Shabala
pp. 1147-1159
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- 2016: Lu Wang
Shoot–root carbon allocation, sugar signalling and their coupling with nitrogen uptake and assimilation
Lu Wang and Yong-Ling Ruan
pp. 105-113
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- 2015: Diep Ganguly
Genetic suppression of plant development and chloroplast biogenesis via the Snowy Cotyledon 3 and Phytochrome B pathways
Diep Ganguly, Peter Crisp, Klaus Harter, Barry J. Pogson and Verónica Albrecht-Borth
pp. 676-686
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- 2014: Thi My Linh Hoang
Physiological basis of salt stress tolerance in rice expressing the antiapoptotic gene SfIAP
Thi My Linh Hoang, Brett Williams, Harjeet Khanna, James Dale and Sagadevan G. Mundree
pp. 1168-1177
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- 2013: Christine Böttcher
Ripening of grape berries can be advanced or delayed by reagents that either reduce or increase ethylene levels
Christine Böttcher , Katie E. Harvey , Paul K. Boss and Christopher Davies
pp. 566-581
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- 2012: Hollie Webster
Genome-level identification of cell wall invertase genes in wheat for the study of drought tolerance
Hollie Webster, Gabriel Keeble, Bernard Dell, John Fosu-Nyarko, Y. Mukai, Paula Moolhuijzen, Matthew Bellgard, Jizeng Jia, Xiuying Kong, Catherine Feuillet, Frédéric Choulet, International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium and Rudi Appels
pp. 569-579
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- 2011: Arati Agarwal
Analysis of global host gene expression during the primary phase of the Arabidopsis thaliana–Plasmodiophora brassicae interaction
Arati Agarwal, Vijay Kaul, Robert Faggian, James E. Rookes, Jutta Ludwig-Müller and David M. Cahill
pp. 462–478
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- 2010: Helen Bramley
The contrasting influence of short-term hypoxia on the hydraulic properties of cells and roots of wheat and lupin
Helen Bramley, Neil C. Turner, David W. Turner, Stephen D. Tyerman
pp. 183-193
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- 2009: Megan C. Shelden
Identification and functional characterisation of aquaporins in the grapevine, Vitis vinifera
Megan C. Shelden, Susan M. Howitt, Brent N. Kaiser, Stephen D. Tyerman
pp. 1065-1078
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- 2008: Joanne Tilbrook
Cell death in grape berries: varietal differences linked to xylem pressure and berry weight loss
Joanne Tilbrook and Stephen D. Tyerman
pp. 173-184
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- 2007: Abby J. Cuttriss
Regulation of lutein biosynthesis and prolamellar body formation in Arabidopsis
Abby J. Cuttriss, Alexandra C. Chubb, Ali Alawady, Bernhard Grimm and Barry J. Pogson
pp. 663-672
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- 2006: Rebecca E. Miller
Cyanogenesis in the Australian tropical rainforest endemic Brombya platynema (Rutaceae): chemical characterisation and polymorphism
Rebecca E. Miller, Judy Simon and Ian E. Woodrow
pp. 477-486
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- 2005: Nick Gould
Phloem hydrostatic pressure relates to solute loading rate: a direct test of the Münch hypothesis
Nick Gould, Michael Thorpe, Olga Koroleva and Peter Minchin
pp. 1019-1026
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- 2004: Megan P. Lindsay
A locus for sodium exclusion (Nax1), a trait for salt tolerance, mapped in durum wheat
Megan P. Lindsay, Evans S. Lagudah, Ray A. Hare and Rana Munns
pp. 1105-1114
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Peter Goldacre Award
This is an award of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists, and is proudly sponsored by FPB. The award carries a prize of A$2000 and a medal.
Nominations are invited for this award every year. The background and eligibility requirement for the award are at http://www.asps.org.au/awards/peter-goldacre-award
Past Recipients of the Peter Goldacre Award
- 2023: Tatiana Soares da Costa
- 2022: Maria Ermakova
- 2021: Joanna Melonek
- 2020: Chung-Chi (Alex) Wu
- 2019: Simon Williams
- 2018: Caitlyn Byrt
- 2017: Jonathan Plett
- 2016: Sam Periyannan
- 2015: Mark Waters
- 2014: Brett Ferguson
- 2013: Min Chen
- 2012: Joshua Mylne
- 2011: Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne
- 2010: Christopher Cazzonelli
- 2009: Ben Trevaskis
- 2008: Jason Able
- 2007: Ulrike Mathesius
- 2006: Peter Dodds
- 2005: Yong-Ling Ruan
- 2004: Stephen Swain
- 2003: Harvey Millar
- 2002: Spencer Whitney
- 2001: Christine Beveridge
- 2000: Barry Pogson
- 1999: Daniel Schachtman
- 1998: Jim Whelan and Adrian Clarke
- 1997: Peter Ryan
- 1995: Jon Lloyd
- 1994: Mark Thomas
- 1992: Bob Furbank
- 1991: John Evans
- 1990: G. I. McFadden
- 1989: Ian Dry
- 1988: Adrienne Hardham
- 1987: Steve Tyerman
- 1986: Jim Burnell
- 1984: Simon Robinson and Joe Wolfe
- 1982: Murray Badger
- 1981: Margaret Sedgley
- 1980: Graham Farquhar
- 1979: Brian Loveys
- 1978: T. J. Higgins
- 1977: Ray Rose
- 1976: John Andrews
- 1974: Andrew Smith
- 1972: Barry Osmond
- 1970: Roger Slack
- 1968: Bob Smillie
- 1965: Joe Giovanelli
