8th PLANTICA-APSR Awards, 2025
Nominations are Open:
Nomination for PLANTICA-APSR Awards – 2025 are Open from 07 June, 2025 and will be closed on 05 July, 2025. Submit nomination as per eligibility given below.
Guideline:
The Association of Plant Science Researchers (APSR) invites nominations for Young Scientist Awards, Best Thesis Award (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) and Excellence Research Fellow Awards in the field of Agriculture, Applied and Life Sciences for the year 2025. PLANTICA awards were instituted in 2018 to motivate high quality fundamental and applied research amongst researchers in India in the field of Agriculture, Applied and Life Sciences. This is an annual award open to all Indian Researchers in the field of Agriculture, Applied and Life Sciences under following subject categories:
| 1. Botany 2. Zoology 3. Chemistry 4. Environmental Science 5. Plant Protection (Pathology/ Nematology / Entomology) 6. Soil Science 7. Food Science 8. Social Sciences (Agricultural Economics/ Extension Education) 9. Horticulture (Fruit Science/ Vegetable Science/Floriculture/ Plantation Spices/ Post Harvest) 10. Plant Breeding and Genetics 11. Seed Science and Technology 12. Medicinal & Aromatic Plants 13. Forestry (Forest Production & Utilization/ Silviculture & Agro-forestry/ Tree Physiology & Breeding/ Tree 15. Improvement/ Wood Science) 14. Plant Biotechnology 15. Microbiology 16. Molecular Biology 17. Agri Business Management 18. Agronomy 19. Agro-Meteorology 20. Plant Biochemistry and Plant Physiology and 21. Agri Engineering |
(Top 03 Awards in each Subject Category)
1. Young Scientist Award
No. of Award: Top 03 in each subject category
Award Include: Each award will consist of a “Citation, one Medal and Life Member Certificate of the Association
Life Membership of Association of Plant Science Researchers (APSR) to the Young Scientist Awardees. The entire Young Scientist awardees can write the “MAPSR” (Life Member of Association of Plant Science Researchers) with their degrees for example Mr. A. B. Pant, M.Sc., MAPSR
Eligibility: Scholars/ Researchers/Faculty/ Scientist
Age Limit: up to 35 Years
2. Excellence Research Fellow Award
No. of Award: 03 in each subject category
Award Include: Each award will consist of a “Citation, one Medal and Life Member Certificate of the Association.
Fellow Membership of Association of Plant Science Researchers (FAPSR) to the Excellence Research Fellow Award. The entire awardees can write the “FAPSR” (Fellow Member of Association of Plant Science Researchers) with their degrees for example Dr. S. C. Pant, M.Sc., Ph.D., FAPSR
Eligibility: All Researchers/ Faculty/ Scientist who have Ph.D. with minimum 03 years of post Ph.D. experience.
Age Limit: up to 55 Years
3. Best Thesis Award- M.Sc. and Ph.D.
No. of Award: 03 in each subject category
Award Include: Each award will consist of a “Citation, one Medal and Life Member Certificate of the Association.
Life Membership of Association of Plant Science Researchers (MAPSR) to the Best Thesis Award -M.Sc. or Ph.D. Award. The entire awardees can write the “MAPSR” (Life Member of Association of Plant Science Researchers) with their degrees for example Dr. S. C. Pant, M.Sc., Ph.D., MAPSR
Eligibility: M. Sc. Students/ Ph.D. Scholars/ Researchers/ Faculty/ Scientist, who have submitted M.Sc. / Ph.D. Thesis Year of Thesis Submission should be: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025 (Not before 2020).
Archives
PLANTICA Awards – 2024
Young Scientist Award – 2024
Excellence Research Fellow Award – 2024
PLANTICA Awards – 2023
PLANTICA Awards – From 2019 to 2022
Plantica Young Scientist Award
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