Each year the ASPS (Australian Society of Plant Scientists) awards a Best Paper Prize for a paper published in Functional Plant Biology the previous year by an early career scientist.

The Best Paper Prize for 2015 was awarded to Diep Ganguly for the paper, Genetic suppression of plant development and chloroplast biogenesis via the Snowy Cotyledon 3 and Phytochrome B pathways' Functional Plant Biology 42, 676–686, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/FP15026.

The prize includes a book voucher from CSIRO Publishing, and the opportunity for an oral presentation at ComBio conference. This year, the ComBio 2016 conference would be held in Brisbane on Oct 3-7. Diep has been invited to deliver his paper at this symposium.