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Plant function and evolutionary biology

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

  • 2023: Phan Thi Thanh Hoai
    Arabidopsis plasma membrane intrinsic protein (AtPIP2;1) is implicated in a salinity conditional influence on seed germination
    Phan Thi Thanh Hoai , Jiaen Qiu , Michael Groszmann , Annamaria De Rosa , Stephen D. Tyerman and Caitlin S. Byrt
    pp. 633-648
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  • 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 thalianaPlasmodiophora 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

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