2008 Rob Martienssen – 'Propagating silent heterochromatin with RNA interference in plants and fission yeast'
2009 Susan McCouch, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University – 'Gene flow and genetic isolation during crop evolution'
2010 Peter Langridge, University of Adelaide, Australia – 'Miserable but worth the trouble: Genomics, wheat and difficult environments'
2012 Sarah Hake, Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS – 'Patterning the maize leaf'
2014 Professor Pamela Ronald, Department of Plant Pathology & The Genome Center, University of California, Davis – ‘Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of stress’
2015 Professor Lord May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford – ‘Unanswered questions in ecology, and why they matter’
2022 Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan, University of California, Davis – ‘Gametes to zygotes to self-cloning plants: The importance of being egg-centric’
2023 Professor Beat Keller, University of Zurich – ‘From the field, to the field: molecular characterization and breeding application of wheat resistance to fungal diseases’
2024 Professor Ken Giller, Wageningen University – ‘Land sparing and land sharing: regenerative agriculture, populism and the role of science’
↑"The Biffen Lecture", The Biffen Lecture, John Innes centre, archived from the original on 3 November 2013, retrieved 29 November 2013
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