Young scientist award
| 1971 | Osamu HORINO Studies on the pathological anatomy of rice plants infected by Cochliobolus miyabeanus  | 
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| 1972 | Tsutomu UEMATSU Biological and ecological studies on Bdellovibrio  | 
| 1973 | Mitsuro KAMEYA-IWAKI Studies on viruses isolated from narcissus and other some bulbous flowers  | 
| 1974 | Yoshio MIYATA Researches on kinetics and taxis of Phytophthora zoospores  | 
| 1975 | Tadaoki INABA Studies on the relationship between Pseudoperonospora cubensis and photosynthetic products of host cucumber leaves  | 
| 1976 | Tetsuo TAMADA Sudies on the soybean dwarf disease  | 
| Shuichi YAMASHITA Studies on the fungal viruses  | |
| Meisaku KOIZUMI Ecological studies on citrus canker  | |
| 1977 | Tsutomu FUKUNISHI Studies on etiology, ecology and control of eggplant black rot, strawberry anthracnose, pea foot rot, sweet potato surface rot and garlic tip blight  | 
| Yuichi HONDA Effect of light on sporulation of Helminthosporium oryzae  | |
| Hitoshi KUNOH Cytochemical and ultrastructural studies on barley powdery mildew  | |
| 1978 | Yoshiaki OTSUKI Studies on novel propagation system of plant viruses using protoplast  | 
| Hiroki KOGANEZAWA Studies on Rice stripe virus  | |
| Seiichi OKUDA Studies on plant diseases due to mycoplasma-like organisms  | |
| 1979 | Masaaki YOSHIKAWA De novo messenger RNA synthesis and glyceollin accumulation mechanisms during resistance expression of soybean hypocotyls to Phytophthora megasperma var. sojae  | 
| Hiroshi OTANI Role of host-specific toxin in infection of Japanese pear by Alternaria kikuchiana  | |
| Mamoru SATO Studies on the bacterial blight of mulberry  | |
| 1980 | Hisatoshi KAKU Resistance reactions of rice cultivars to strains of Xanthomonas campestris pv. oryzae  | 
| Tomonori SHIRAISHI Role of pisatin on disease resistance of pea and the regulation mechanism of pisatin production by a pathogenic fungus  | |
| Satoshi OHKI Studies on yellows-type plant virus diseases  | |
| 1981 | Matsuo SASAKI Studies on hop stunt disease  | 
| Hiromichi HORIE Studies on diseases of ornamental trees and shrubs  | |
| Kenji TAKAHASHI Ultrastructure and its function in the host-parasite interface of obligate parasite  | |
| 1982 | Shigetou NAMBA Etiological studies on virus diseases of fruit trees  | 
| Toshihiro OMURA Production of virus-free plants through callus culture and studies of rice gall dwarf virus  | |
| Masatoki TAGA Genetical studies on fungicide resistance of blast fungus  | |
| 1983 | Naoyuki MATSUMOTO Autecological studies on the Typhula snow blight of graminaceous plants  | 
| Hideo ISHII Studies on fungicide resistance of pear scab fungus  | |
| Yoshikatsu FUJITA Studies on aggressiveness of races of Pyricularia oryzae  | |
| 1984 | Hiroshi HAGIWARA Studies on the soil-borne diseases of vegetable and ornamental crops  | 
| Tomohide NATSUAKI Studies on seed-borne temperate viruses  | |
| Kaoru HANADA Genetic analysis of small isometric plant viruses  | |
| 1985 | Shigeru KUWATA Studies on the causal viruses of tobacco stunt and lettuce big vein  | 
| Hironori KOGA Morphological studies on the early infection process of rice blast fungus  | |
| Yukio SHIRAKO Studies on soil-borne viruses  | |
| 1986 | Takahito NODA Studies on the physiology and ecology of the infection by Xanthomonas campestris pv. oryzae  | 
| Koji AZEGAMI Studies on the bacterial seedling blight of rice and the pathogen  | |
| Yuichi TAKIKAWA Studies on classification and identification of plant pathogenic bacteria  | |
| 1987 | Yoshiaki CHIKUO Studies on the ecology and control of sugar beet anthracnose and sugar beet black root  | 
| Teruo SANO Comparative studies on pathogenicity and nucleotide sequence of viroids  | |
| Takashi TSUGE Relation between the host-specific toxin production and pathogenicity in Alternaria alternata pathogens  | |
| 1988 | Katsumi KATAYAMA Ecology and control of bacterial wilt on potato in Southwestern Japan  | 
| Yasuyuki KUBO Significance of melanin biosynthesis for appressorial penetration of Colletotrichum lagenarium  | |
| Toyozo SATO Morphological and systematic studies on rust fungi  | |
| 1989 | Takashi OKU Studies on the parasitism of Erysiphe graminis DC.  | 
| Nobuya TASHIRO Studies on potato common scab caused by Streptomyces spp.  | |
| Nobuyuki YOSHIKAWA Studies on strawberry viruses in Japan  | |
| 1990 | Yasuo ANDO Physiological and ecological studies on the tea gray blight caused by Pestalotia longiseta  | 
| Hideki HARA Ecology and control of bacterial wilt on tobacco caused by Pseudomonas sotanacearum  | |
| Takeshi KANO Studies on citrus viruses and viroids  | |
| 1991 | Kiyoshi ISHIGURO Studies on the forecast of rice blast disease  | 
| Hisashi IWAI Studies on the multiplication and movement of soybean mosaic virus within soybean plant tissues  | |
| Yoshiyuki TAKAHASHI Studies on serological diagnosis of plant viruses  | |
| 1992 | Kazuyuki HIRATSUKA Studies on viruses and plasmid-like DNAs in phytopathogenic fungi  | 
| Kazusato OHSHIMA Studies on rnonoclonal antibodies to plant viruses  | |
| Shigehito TAKENAKA Studies on serological diagnostic methods of snow molds of wheat and barley  | |
| 1993 | Ikuo KADOTA Stripe of rice caused by Pseudomonas avenae  | 
| Chikara MASUTA Studies on function of satellite RNAs of cucumber mosaic virus  | |
| Yukio TOSA Studies on mechanism of the forma specialis-genes specificity in Erysiphe graminis  | |
| 1994 | Satoshi KASHIWAZAKI Etiology of barley yellow mosaic disease  | 
| Hiroyuki SAWADA Studies on differentiation and taxonomy of the genus Agrobacterium  | |
| Hideki TAKAHASHI Studies on mechanisms of symptom expression on cucumber mosaic virus disease  | |
| 1995 | Naruto FURUYA Studies on biological control of bacterial grain rot of rice  | 
| Nobuhiro SUZUKI Molecular analysis or the rice dwarf phytoreovirus genome  | |
| Shinya TSUDA Studies on biological and serological analyses of tomato spotted wilt virus and its application  | |
| 1996 | Michiyoshi ARAI Studies on infection process and control of barley caused by Rhynchosporium secalis  | 
| Tetsuo MAOKA Studies on papaya ringspot virus  | |
| Kazuo NAKASHIMA Characterization of phytoplsmas that cause rice yellow dwarf, sugarcane white leaf and sesame phyllody  | |
| 1997 | Toshiyuki MORIKAWA Etiological and ecological studies of tulip diseases  | 
| Toshiaki TAKEHARA Use of nitrate nonutilizing mutants in ecological studies of Fusarium diseases  | |
| Hirofumi YOSHIOKA Regulation of the expression of defense gene by suppressors from plant pathogenic fungi  | |
| 1998 | Takashi NARABU Physiological and ecological studies and biological control of root-knot nematodes  | 
| Kazuhiko NARISAWA Biocontrol of clubroot disease and yellows in Brassica campestris by root endophytic fungus, Heteroconium chaetospira  | |
| Motoaki TOJO Studies on propagules behavior of Phythium spp. in field soil  | |
| 1999 | Kazuhiro NAKAHO Studies on mechanisms of resistance in tomato rootstock cultivars to bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum  | 
| Masashi SUZUKI Studies on functions of cucumber mosaic virus genes  | |
| Kazuhiro TOYODA Regulation of signal transduction and expression of defense responses in pea by elicitor and suppressor from Mycosphaerella pinodes  | |
| 2000 | Akinori KIBA Role of plant cell walls in determining plant-pathorogen specificity  | 
| Motoaki KUSABA Evolutionary process of parastic specialization in plant pathogenic fungi inferred from molecular phylogenetic analysis  | |
| Mamoru SATOU Studies on physiological specialization of downy mildew of crucifers caused by peronospora parasitica  | |
| 2001 | Ryouji NAKAUNE ABC transporter genes involved in multidrug resistance in Penicillium digitatum  | 
| Shoji SONODA Studies on virus resistance and gene silencing in transgenic plants with viral genes  | |
| Hideo YUKIOKA The strobilurin metominostrobin induces an alternative respiratory pathway in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea  | |
| 2002 | Satoko KANEMATSU Variation in Japanese isolates of Phomopsis from fruit trees and their phylogenetic and taxonomic studies  | 
| Masami NAKAJIMA Mechanisms of bactericide resistance in phytopathogenic bacteria  | |
| Akinori SHINMURA Studies on the ecology and control of Welsh onion root rot caused by Fusarium redolens  | |
| 2003 | Takao ITO Studies on the distribution and diagnosis of citrus viroids in Japan  | 
| Taketo UEHARA Molecular phylogenetic analysis and characterization of secretory enzyme genes of plant parasitic nematodes  | |
| Shigenobu YOSHIDA Studies on ecology and control of mulberry anthracnose  | |
| 2004 | Hajime AKAMATSU Molecular biological studies on pathogenicity of Alternaria alternata tomato pathotype  | 
| Jun-ichi KIHARA Studies on photomorphogenesis in a phytopathogenic fungus induced by near-ultraviolet radiation  | |
| Yoshitaka TAKANO Molecular genetic studies on infection mechanism in Colletotrichum lagenarium  | |
| 2005 | Masashi FUJINAGA Studies on physiological races and phylogenetic analysis of lettuce root rot pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae  | 
| Mitsuru OKUDA Developing a detection method and study of pathogenicity-related genes of tospoviruses  | |
| Minoru TAKESHITA Molecular biological study of the host-specificity and cross-protection of Cucumber mosaic virus  | |
| 2006 | Kenichi IKEDA Diversity and dynamics of dsRNA in root rot fungi  | 
| Kinya NOMURA Molecular biological analysis of plant-bacteria interactions in disease  | |
| Gento TSUJI Molecular biological studies on the pathogenicity of Colletotrichum lagenarium  | |
| 2007 | Akira MASUNAKA Studies on Biosynthesis genes for host-selective ACT-toxin produced by the tangerine pathotype of Alternaria alternata  | 
| Masafumi SHIMIZU Cultivation of disease-resistant tissue-cultured seedlings using endophytic actinomycetes  | |
| Noriko ISHIKAWA (SUEHIRO) The molecular and biological characterization of pathogenicity determinants of Turnip mosaic virus and a simplified method for virus detection  | |
| 2008 | Shigeyuki KAKIZAWA Genomic sequencing and analysis of cell surface membrane proteins of phytoplasma  | 
| Nobutaka SOMEYA Biological control of fungal plant diseases by using antagonistic bacteria  | |
| Kasumi TAKEUCHI Studies on flagellin glycosylation and pathogenicity of Pseudomonas syringae  | |
| 2009 | Ayako FURUTANI Molecular biological studies on pathogencity of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae  | 
| Kenji GOMI Studies on plant defense signaling and host specificity  | |
| Akira KAWAGUCHI Studies on the diagnosis and biological control of grapevine crown gall and phylogenetic analysys of tumorigenic Rhizobium vitis  | |
| 2010 | Hisae HIRATA Molecular biological studies on mechanisms involved in pathogenicity of citrus pathogens  | 
| Kazuhiro ISHIBASHI Studies on the Tm-1 gene of tomato and host specificity of tobamoviruses  | |
| Ken-ichiro SAITOH Molecular viological studies on appressorium formation in the rice blast fungus  | |
| 2011 | Hanako SHIMURA Functional analysis of viral RNA silencing suppressors and a strategy to screen antiviral compounds that target viral RNA silencing suppressors  | 
| Makoto UENO Studies on the expression of light-induced resistance of plants to the rice blast fungus  | |
| Yasuyuki YAMAJI Studies on host factors regulating infection by Tobacco mosaic virus  | |
| 2012 | Tomoo MISAWA Studies on the identification, epidemiology and control of fungal diseases on various vegetables in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan  | 
| Nobumitsu SASAKI Studies on the molecular mechanism of cell-to-cell movement of plant RNA viruses  | |
| Megumi YOSHIDA Studies on the control of Fusarium head blight of barley and wheat and mycotoxin levels in grains based on time of infection and toxin accumulation  | |
| 2013 | Izumi CHUMA Studies on mechanisms of adaptation of the blast fungus to rice resistance genes  | 
| Ken KOMATSU Studies on molecular mechanisms underlying virus-induced systemic necrosis associated with host defense responses  | |
| Toshiyuki USAMI Studies on differentiation of pathogenicity in Verticillium dahliae  | |
| 2014 | Takashi FUJIKAWA Studies on early and highly sensitive detection of citrus greening pathogenic bacterium  | 
| Tomofumi MOCHIZUKI Molecular biological and histochemical studies on the mechanism of symptom expression upon plant viral infection  | |
| Atsushi TAKEDA Studies on molecular mechanisms of RNA silencing-mediated anti-virus defense in plants and RNA silencing suppression by plant viruses  | |
| 2015 | Junichiro ENYA Study on the composition of microbial flora on tomato leaves and screening of biological control agents  | 
| Iori IMAZAKI Studies on the mechanisms of pathogenicity in soil-borne plant pathogens  | |
| Noriaki MOMMA Studies on mechanisms of anaerobicity-mediated biological soil disinfestation and its practical application  | |
| 2016 | Daisuke KUROSE Studies on biological control of an invasive alien weed using plant pathogenic fungi  | 
| Kensaku MAEJIMA Studies of plum pox virus: identification, development of detection technology, and molecular epidemiological analysis  | |
| Yosuke MATSUSHITA Characteristics of viroids infecting horticultural plants  | |
| 2017 | Yasuhiro ISHIGA Studies on mode of action of phytotoxin coronatine produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato  | 
| Sunao OCHI Studies on ecology and control of red crown rot of soybean  | |
| Naho YAMAGISHI Studies on disease cycle and control of celery stunt anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum nymphaeae  | |
| 2018 | Rie GAPPA Studies on the taxonomy and ecology of pathogenic microorganisms related to the generation of an integrated pest management model for important horticultural crop diseases  | 
| Shuhei MIYASHITA Studies on replication and evolution mechanisms of plant RNA viruses  | |
| Hajime YAEGASHI Strategies of persistent infectious fruit tree and fungal viruses to avoid host RNA silencing  | |
| 2019 | Kei HIRUMA Plant interactions with parasitic and beneficial Colletotrichum fungi under changing environmental conditions  | 
| Yohei KANEKO Studies on the identification and ecology of the causal fungi of Japanese pear dwarf  | |
| Yasuhiro TOMITAKA Studies on the interaction between tomato spotted wilt tospovirus and thrips  | |
| 2020 | Takayuki ARAZOE Development of genome-editing technologies for plant pathogenic fungi  | 
| Shuta ASAI Studies on infection mechanisms of oomycete plant pathogens  | |
| Akira MINE Structure and dynamics of the plant immune signaling network in plant–bacteria interactions  | |
| 2021 | Masayoshi HASHIMOTO Identification and molecular dissection of broad-spectrum recessive plant virus resistance genes  | 
| Kiwamu HYODO Identification and characterization of host factors involved in plant RNA virus replication  | |
| Shihomi UZUHASHI Taxonomic study of plant pathogenic oomycetes  | |
| 2022 | Taketo FUJIMOTO Identification of pathogens and infection routes of potato blackleg disease in Japan  | 
| Yoshihiro INOUE Genetic characterization of the parasitic specialization in the blast and anthracnose fungi  | |
| Yukari OKANO Studies on plant–virus interactions for development of multiple resistance to plant viruses  | |
| 2023 | Kazuki FUJIWARA Development of plant pathogen detection and diagnostic techniques for downy mildew of onion, foot rot of sweet potato, and citrus greening  | 
| Ayaka HIENO Development of detection methods for soil borne pathogens  | |
| Ok-Kyung KIM Identification and characterization of plant viruses and analysis of their diversity  | |
| 2024 | Yuya CHIAKI Studies on the taxonomy and ecology of viruses infecting fruit trees in the South-West region, Japan  | 
| Fumi FUKADA Morphogenesis and adaptive strategies for infection in plant pathogenic fungi  | |
| Yutaro NERIYA Search for plant factors required for virus infection  | 


