Pr Olivier Panaud , University of Perpignan, France delivers the prize  for session 5 Rice plant development and performance to Mr SIMON STROBBE, University of Ghent, Belgium

  
Improving folate (vitamin B9) stability in biofortified rice through metabolic engineering
DIETER BLANCQUAERT, JEROEN VAN DAELE, SIMON STROBBE, FILIP KIEKENS, SERGEI STOROZHENKO, HANS DESTEUR, XAVIER GELLYNCK, WILLY LAMBERT, CHRISTOPHE STOVE, DOMINIQUE VAN DER STRAETEN
 
Dr Caroline Hsing, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan delivers the prize of the sessions 2+3 Rice diversity harnessing for gene discovery and precision breeding and Rice Interactions with its biotic environment to Mr HEEBAK CHOI, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea 

A member of the class IV homeodomain leucine zipper gene family induces flowering preferentially under long day via repression of Ghd7
JINHUAN WEI, HEEBAK CHOI, PING JIN, YUNFEI WU, JINMI YOON, YANG-SEOK LEE, TAIYONG QUAN, GYNHEUNG AN

Pr Gynheung An , Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea delivers the prize for session 4 Rice interaction with its abiotic environment to Ms SIQI MA, Huazhong Agricultural University, China

 
OsPUB70, a U-box-containing E3 ubiquitin ligase, negatively regulates ABA signaling and drought resistance in rice
SIQI MA, NING TANG, LIZHONG XIONG

Pr Rod Wing, University of Arizona, USA delivers the prize for Session 1 Rice genome evolution, structure and function to: JOAO SANTOS, Cirad, France

The mosaic structure of rice genome diversity in the 3K RG
JOÃO GND SANTOS, CLAIRE BILLOT, JEAN CHRISTOPHE GLASZMANN