Award for best paper (2016) by an early career plant scientist published in Functional Plant Biology (certificate, $250 book voucher from CSIRO publishing). Selected from papers published in 2015 in Functional Plant Biology and nominated during the submission process.
Functional Plant Biology (FPB) is pleased to offer an annual award for the best paper published by an early-career researcher in the Journal in each calendar year.
The award carries a prize of a personal one-year print+online subscription to FPB, a A$250 book voucher from CSIRO PUBLISHING, and a certificate.
To be eligible for the prize, the first author must be no more than 10 years post-PhD and be a member of the ASPS or NZSPB.
FPB Reviewers are asked to nominate whether a manuscript is suitable for consideration for the prize, and nominations are then judged by the Editor-in-Chief and a member(s) of the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists, to select a winner.
Click here to view previous recipients of the FPB Best Paper Award.
For more information about Functional Plant Biology, see the CSIRO web site.