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| Mr. | Qiqiang | Guo | Guizhou University | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Gibbon Innocent Tirivanhu | Masukwedza | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Jing | Yin | College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Ting | Tang | Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Wei | Liu | Hebei university | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | jingjing | Liu | Hubei University of Chinese Medicine | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Jun | Hu | Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Zhumei | Ren | Shanxi University | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Liang | Shi | College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University | China | Plant Biology Leadership Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Shuming | Wang | Southwest University | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Meng | Ma | Xuzhou Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Jiangsu Xuhuai District | China | Young Scientist Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Juan | Huang | South China Botanical Garden | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Valeisha | Ellis | Spelman College | United States | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Huiping | Dai | Shaanxi University of Technology | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Lixi | Jiang | Zhejiang University | China | Excellence in Plant Research | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Xuehao | Fu | School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University. | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Guo | Shuchun | Science and Crop Science Research Institute of Inner Mongolia University of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry | China | Outstanding Scientist Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Alicia | Foxx | Chicago Botanic Garden | United States | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Funian | Zhao | Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Qiang | Zhang | Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Yuefeng | Bai | Sichuan Normal University | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Jinyue | Tang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Michael | Neff | Washington State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | MUSLIM | QADIR | South China Agricultural University | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |