Publications update

Journal Outstanding Paper Awards Presented

By Matt Wascavage

December 27, 2020

ASA, CSSA, and SSSA are proud to congratulate the winners of the society and journal Outstanding Paper awards presented in November 2020. Early last year, the Societies launched an expansion of their author recognition program with 18 new awards added to the three previous annual awards.

Joining the existing ASA award, CSSA and SSSA have each recognized authors with an Outstanding Paper award in conjunction with their flagship journals. Additionally, the journal Outstanding Paper awards have been expanded to include authors publishing in Agricultural & Environmental Letters; Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment; Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management; Natural Sciences Education; The Plant Genome; and Vadose Zone Journal. Lastly, CSSA expanded Division Outstanding Paper awards to C-03 and C-06 to join the current C-08 award.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the award winners will receive recognition at the 2021 ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. Congratulations to the winners.

Society Awards

Agronomy Journal

“Strengths and Limitations of Nitrogen Rate Recommendations for Corn and Opportunities for Improvement" by Thomas F. Morris, T. Scott Murrell, Douglas B. Beegle, James J. Camberato, Richard B. Ferguson, John Grove, Quirine Ketterings, et al. See https://doi.org/10.2134/agronj2017.02.0112.

“Root System Architecture and Its Association with Yield under Different Water Regimes in Durum Wheat” by K. El Hassouni, S. Alahmad, B. Belkadi, A. Filali-Maltouf, L.T. Hickey, and F.M. Bassi. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2018.01.0076.

“Soil Property and Class Maps of the Conterminous United States at 100-Meter Spatial Resolution” by Amanda Ramcharan, Tomislav Hengl, Travis Nauman, Colby Brungard, Sharon Waltman, Skye Wills, and James Thompson. See https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2017.04.0122.

Journal Outstanding Paper Awards

Agricultural & Environmental Letters

“Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Feedbacks on Crop Yields under Climate Change” by B. Basso, B. Dumont, B. Maestrini, I. Shcherbak, G.P. Robertson, J.R. Porter, P. Smith, et al. See https://doi.org/10.2134/ael2018.05.0026.

Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment

“World Cereal Nitrogen Use Efficiency Trends: Review and Current Knowledge” by Peter Omara, Lawrence Aula, Fikayo Oyebiyi, and William R. Raun. See https://doi.org/10.2134/age2018.10.0045.

Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management

Applied Turfgrass Science Section Winner: “Herbicide resistance in annual bluegrass on Tennessee golf courses” by James T. Brosnan, Jose J. Vargas, Gregory K. Breeden, and John M. Zobel. See https://doi.org/10.1002/cft2.20050.

Crop Management Section Winner: “Corn yield response to row spacing and plant population in Iowa” by M.A. Licht, M.R. Parvej, and E.E. Wright. See https://doi.org/10.2134/cftm2019.05.0032.

Forage and Grazinglands Section Winner: “Swichgrass growth and forage quality trends provide insight for management” by Kenton L. Sena, Ben Goff, David Davis, and S. Ray Smith. See https://doi.org/10.2134/cftm2017.08.0053.

Journal of Environmental Quality

“Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Swedish Winter Climate and Nutrient Leaching” by Barbro Ulén, Elisabet Lewan, Katarina Kyllmar, Maria Blomberg, and Stefan Andersson. See https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.06.0237.

Natural Sciences Education

“Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities in the Precision Agriculture Workforce: An Industry Survey” by Bruce Erickson, Scott Fausti, David Clay, and Sharon Clay. See https://doi.org/10.4195/nse2018.04.0010.

The Plant Genome

“Combining High-Throughput Phenotyping and Genomic Information to Increase Prediction and Selection Accuracy in Wheat Breeding” by Jared Crain, Suchismita Mondal, Jessica Rutkoski, Ravi P. Singh, and Jesse Poland. See https://doi.org/10.3835/plantgenome2017.05.0043.

The Plant Phenome Journal

“Functional Modeling of Plant Growth Dynamics” by Yuhang Xu, Yumou Qiu, and James C. Schnable. See https://doi.org/10.2135/tppj2017.09.0007.

Vadose Zone Journal

“Measuring and Modeling Stable Isotopes of Mobile and Bulk Soil Water” by Matthias Sprenger, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Jim Buttle, Hjalmar Laudon, Hannes Leistert, Carl P. J. Mitchell, Jenna Snelgrove, et al. See https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2017.08.0149.

Crop Science: Crop Ecology, Management, and Quality (C-03) Division

“Agronomic Practices for Reducing Wheat Yield Gaps: A Quantitative Appraisal of Progressive Producers” by Romulo P. Lollato, Dorivar A. Ruiz Diaz, Erick DeWolf, Mary Knapp, Dallas E. Peterson, and Allan K. Fritz. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2018.04.0249.

“Cover Crop Biomass Production Is More Important than Diversity for Weed Suppression” by Chloe MacLaren, Pieter Swanepoel, James Bennett, Julia Wright, and Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2018.05.0329.

Crop Science: Forage and Grazinglands (C-06) Division

“Establishment and Stand Development of Alfalfa Interseeded into Native Grass Mixture: Cultivar and Row Spacing Effects” by Madhav Dhakal, Charles P. West, and Carlos Villalobos. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2019.03.0156.

“Multistate Evaluation of Reduced-Lignin Alfalfa Harvested at Different Intervals” by Angela M. Arnold, Kimberly A. Cassida, Kenneth A. Albrecht, Marvin H. Hall, Doohong Min, Xuan Xu, Steve Orloff, et al. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2019.01.0023.

“Resilience, Stability, and Productivity of Alfalfa Cultivars in Rainfed Regions of North America” by Valentin D. Picasso, Michael D. Casler, and Dan Undersander. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2018.06.0372.

Crop Science: Plant Genetic Resources (C-08) Division

“Introgression Analysis and Morphological Characterization of an Arachis hypogaea × A. diogoi Interspecific Hybrid Derived Population” by Wesley G. Hancock, Shyam P. Tallury, Thomas G. Isleib, Ye Chu, Peggy Ozias-Akins, and H. Thomas Stalker. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2018.07.0461(no photo available).

“Genetic Parameters for Phenotypic Traits in Annual Ryegrass” by Esteban F. Rios, Kevin E. Kenworthy, Salvador A. Gezan, and Patricio R. Munoz. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2019.02.0126.

“Exploring the Genetic Diversity of Wild Cranberry Populations in the Upper Midwestern United States” by Lorraine Rodríguez-Bonilla, Fabian Rodríguez Bonilla, Daniel Matusinec, Eric Wiesman, Sean D. Schoville, Amaya Atucha, and Juan Zalapa. See https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2019.06.0367.

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