| 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 |
| Mr. | Jia | hao | school of medicine | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Rattan | Lal | The Ohio State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Yonghong | Bi | Institute of hydrobiology, CAS | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Umesh | Khadka | tu | Nepal | Best Paper Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Sabas | Patrick | Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania | Tanzania | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Xiankai | Lu | South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Kamran | Ghasemzadeh | university of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Christos | Chatzissavvidis | Democritus University of Thrace | Greece | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Setia | Girsang | Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency | Indonesia | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Peijiang | Liu | the Fifth Electronics Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Catalina | Cabañas | Universidad de Extremadura | Spain | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Mingming | Yang | China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research | China | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Prince Emmanuel | Norman | Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute, | Sierra Leone | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Mohamed Abd salam | EL Vilaly | United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD) | Germany | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Miriam | Patti | Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria | Italy | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | Mohammad | Faisal | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | Excellence in Plant Research | plantscientist.org |
| Mr. | John | Carethers | UC San Diego | United States | Best Researcher Award | plantscientist.org |