Dear Colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2018 Plants Best Paper Award. The winners were selected by a selection committee, which was composed of Plants Editorial Board Members, and finally approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Dilantha Fernando. The top-voted research article and the top-voted review won the 2018 Plants Best Paper Award:

Article:

Phytotoxicity of Essential Oils on Selected Weeds: Potential Hazard on Food Crops
María Dolores Ibáñez and María Amparo Blázquez
Plants 2018, 7(4), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants7040079

Review:

Hitting the Wall—Sensing and Signaling Pathways Involved in Plant Cell Wall Remodeling in Response to Abiotic Stress
Lazar Novaković, Tingting Guo, Antony Bacic, Arun Sampathkumar and Kim L. Johnson
Plants 2018, 7(4), 89; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants7040089

We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Plants to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will each receive a cash award of 500 CHF and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Plants after the usual peer-review procedure.