Winners of JSPP Award

Takayuki KOHCHI (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)

Regulatory mechanisms of sexual reproduction in land plants: Insights from the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Winners of JSPP Young Investigator Award

2025 (32th)

Yasuhito SAKURABA (AgTECH, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo)

Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of leaf senescence

Ginga SHIMAKAWA (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University)

Diverse Lifestyles of Photosynthetic Organisms from the View of Plant Physiology

Katsutoshi TSUDA (National Institute of Genetics)

Study on early stem development

Sota FUJII (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo)

Molecular Mechanisms of Pre-fertilization Barriers in Plants

Yasuyo YAMAOKA (Department of Biotechnology, The Catholic University of Korea)

Elucidating the mechanisms of lipid metabolism regulation in microalgae under various environmental stress conditions

Winners of JSPP Plant and Cell Physiology Best Paper Award

2025 (32th)

Tatsuaki Goh, Yu Song, Takaaki Yonekura, Noriyasu Obushi, Zeping Den, Katsutoshi Imizu, Yoko Tomizawa, Yohei Kondo, Shunsuke Miyashima, Yutaro Iwamoto, Masahiko Inami, Yen-Wei Chen and Keiji Nakajima

In-Depth Quantification of Cell Division and Elongation Dynamics at the Tip of Growing Arabidopsis Roots Using 4D Microscopy, AI-Assisted Image Processing and Data Sonification
Plant Cell Physiol. 64(11): 1262–1278 (2023)

Winners of JSPP Plant and Cell Physiology Top Cited Paper Awards

2025

PCP Top Cited Regular Paper Award

Sebastien Carrere, Jerome Verdier and Pascal Gamas

MtExpress, a Comprehensive and Curated RNAseq-based Gene Expression Atlas for the Model Legume Medicago truncatula
Plant Cell Physiol. 62(9): 1494–1500 (2021)

PCP Top Cited Review Paper Award

Alexander V Ruban and Sam Wilson

The Mechanism of Non-Photochemical Quenching in Plants: Localization and Driving Forces
Plant Cell Physiol. 62 (7): 1063–1072 (2021)