The New Phytologist Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of plant science. It owns and produces the international journals New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet, and is proud to support student researchers by awarding the New Phytologist Foundation Poster ($300) and Oral Presentation ($300) Prizes in Plant Biology at the Annual Meeting.
RECIPIENTS
2023 – Best Oral Presentation – Abhishek Gopal, Center for Cell and Molecular Biology (CCMB), India: “Range-restricted old and young lineages show the southern Western Ghats to be both a museum and a cradle of diversity”
2023 – Best Poster – Megha Ojha, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India: “Impact of non-native invasive plant species on Asian tropical savannas”
2022 – Siddarth Machado, University of Florida, USA: “Resilience to drought in a humid tropical Dipterocarp forest, India”.
2021 – Valerie Milici, University of Connecticut, USA: “Patterns of pathogen attack in seedling communities across a neotropical precipitation gradient and its implications for coexistence”.
2019 – Anita Weissflog, Bangor University, United Kingdom: “Fungal-mediated plant-soil-feedbacks affect secondary succession of tropical rainforests”.
2018 – Nancia Raoelinjanakolona, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar: “Impacts of habitat fragmentation on plant-frugivores mutualistic networks”.
2017 – Diana Cisneros de la Cruz: “Morphological and Genetic Variability of Rhizophora mangle L. in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico”.
2016 – Gabriel Damasco: “The leaf economic spectrum in the context of incipient species divergence”.
2015 – Carolyn Delevich “Does microbial-mediated plant-soil feedback regulate congeneric recruitment in the genus Cecropia“.