Winners of JSPP Award

Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University)

Elucidation of plant growth and environmental adaptation mechanisms through the identification of novel peptide hormones

Winners of JSPP Young Investigator Award

2026 (33rd)

Aino Komatsu (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)

Molecular mechanisms regulating vegetative reproduction in plants

Makoto Shirakawa (Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica)

The Differentiation and Evolution of Plant Idioblasts

Yohei Takahashi (WPI-ITbM, Nagoya University; Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University)

Research on environmental sensing and signal transduction in stomata

Tatsuya Nobori (The Sainsbury Laboratory)

Dissecting plant-microbe interactions with new sequencing and imaging technologies

Yoko Mizuta (WPI-ITbM, Nagoya University)

Studies on Plant Reproduction Focusing on Pollen Development and Function

Winners of JSPP Plant and Cell Physiology Best Paper Award

2026 (33rd)

Kenshiro Watanabe, Kenji Hashimoto, Kota Hasegawa, Hiroki Shindo, Yushin Tsuruda, Kamila Kupisz, Mateusz Koselski, Piotr Wasko, Kazimierz Trebacz, Kazuyuki Kuchitsu

Rapid Propagation of Ca²⁺ Waves and Electrical Signals in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
Plant Cell Physiol. 65(4): 660–670 (2024)

Winners of JSPP Plant and Cell Physiology Top Cited Paper Awards

2025

PCP Top Cited Regular Paper Award

Takeshi Obayashi, Himiko Hibara, Yuki Kagaya, Yuichi Aoki, Kengo Kinoshita

ATTED-II v11: A Plant Gene Coexpression Database Using a Sample Balancing Technique by Subagging of Principal Components
Plant Cell Physiol. 63(6): 869–881 (2022)

PCP Top Cited Review Paper Award

Francisco J Corpas, Salvador Gonzalez-Gordo, Marta Rodriguez-Ruiz, Maria A Munoz-Vargas, Jose M Palma

Thiol-based Oxidative Posttranslational Modifications (OxiPTMs) of Plant Proteins
Plant Cell Physiol. 63 (7): 889–900 (2022)