The two 2025 GGS Prize papers have been selected at the annual meeting in Kobe on September 9.
Starting this year, the GGS Review Prize was established and awarded to one outstanding paper selected from highly cited review articles published over the past decade.

GGS PRIZE 2025
●Title
N-terminal acetyltransferase NatB regulates Rad51-dependent repair of double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Authors
Natsuki Sugaya, Shion Tanaka, Kenji Keyamura, Shunsuke Noda, Genki Akanuma, Takashi Hishida*
Published in Genes & Genetic Systems 2023 Volume 98 Issue 2 Pages 61-72.

●Title
Pigmentation of soybean seed coats via a mutation that abolishes production of multiple-phased siRNAs of chalcone synthase genes
Authors
Mashiro Yuhazu, Shun Mikuriya, Ayumi Mori, Maria Stefanie Dwiyanti, Mineo Senda, Akira Kanazawa*
Published in Genes & Genetic Systems 2024 Volume 99 Article ID: 23-00260.


GGS REVIEW PRIZE
●Title
SOG1: a master regulator of the DNA damage response in plants
Author
Kaoru Okamoto Yoshiyama
Published in Genes & Genetic Systems 2015 Volume 90 Issue 4 Pages 209-216.