Venkatesan Sundaresan
Professor
sundar@ucdavis.edu
http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/Labs/sundar/
Plant Biology
Plant Science
Office
2133 Life Sciences
(530) 754 9677
Lab
2137 Life Sciences
(530) 754 9852
Degrees:
1982
PhD
Harvard University
Biophysics
B.Sc. - University of Poona
M.Sc. - Indian Institute of Technology
M.S. - Carnegie Mellon University
Research Contribution to Society:
Biotechnology applied to agriculture will help farmers and people living in developing countries.
Research Interests:
Genetics and molecular biology of plant reproduction. Functional genomics in model plants- Arabidopsis and rice. Bioinformatics of small RNAs. Microbiomes and metagenomics.
http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/Labs/sundar/
Department and Center Affiliations:
Genome Center
Professional Societies:
American Society of Plant Biology
Genetics Society of America
American Association for the Advancement of Science
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Genetics
Plant Biology
Specialties / Focus:
Genetics
Model Plants
Plant Biology
Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Genomics
Publications:
Last updated 10/31/2012
Leshem Y., Johnson C.A., Wuest S.E., Song X., Ngo Q.A., Grossniklaus U., Sundaresan V. 2012. Molecular Characterization of the glauce Mutant: a Central Cell-Specific Function Is Required for Double Fertilization in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, 24: 3264-3277.
Ngo QA, Baroux C, Guthörl D, Mozerov P, Collinge MA, Sundaresan V, Grossniklaus U. 2012. The Armadillo Repeat Gene ZAK IXIK Promotes Arabidopsis Early Embryo and Endosperm Development through a Distinctive Gametophytic Maternal Effect. The Plant Cell,2012 e-published doi:10.1105/tpc.112.102384
Yang S-Y, Gronlund M, Jakobsen I, Grotemeyer MS, Rentsch D, Miyao A, Hirochika H, Kumar CS, Sundaresan V, Salamin N, Catausan S, Mattes N, Heuer S, Paszkowski U. Nonredundant Regulation of Rice Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis by Two Members of the PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER1 Gene Family. 2012, The Plant Cell, e-published doi:10.1105/tpc.112.104901.
Gutjahr C, Radovanovic D, Geoffroy J, Zhang Q, Siegler H, Chiapello M, Casieri L, An K, An G, Guiderdoni E, Kumar CS, Sundaresan V, Harrison MJ, Paszkowski U. 2011. The half-size ABC transporters STR1 and STR2 are indispensable for mycorrhizal arbuscule formation in rice. The Plant Journal 69: 906-920.
Sundaresan V., Alandete-Saez, M. 2010. Pattern formation in miniature: The female gametophyte of flowering plants. Development 137:179-189.
Pagnussat G., Alandete-Saez, M., Bowman, J., Sundaresan, V. 2009. Auxin dependent patterning and gamete specification in the Arabidopsis female gametophyte. Science 324: 1684-1689.
Johnson C., Kasprzewska A., Tennessen K., Fernandes J., Nan G., Walbot V., Sundaresan V.*, Vance V.*, Bowman L.* 2009. Clusters and Superclusters of Phased Small RNAs in the Developing Inflorescence of Rice. Genome Research 19:1429-1440.
Krishnan A, Guiderdoni E, An G, Hsing YI, Han CD, Lee MC, Yu SM, Upadhyaya N, Ramachandran S, Zhang Q, Sundaresan V, Hirochika H, Leung H, Pereira A. 2009. Mutant resources in rice for functional genomics of the grasses. Plant Physiol. 149:165-70.
Boavida LC, Shuai B, Yu HJ, Pagnussat GC, Sundaresan V, McCormick S. 2009. A Collection of Ds Insertional Mutants Associated With Defects in Male Gametophyte Development and Function in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 181:1369-85.
Capron, A., Gourgues, M., Neiva, L.S., Faure, J.E., Berger, F., Pagnussat, G., Krishnan, A., Alvarez-Meija, C., Vielle-Calzada, J.-P., Lee, Y.-R., Liu, B., Sundaresan, V. 2008. Maternal control of male-gamete delivery in Arabidopsis involves a putative GPI-anchored protein encoded by the LORELEI gene. The Plant Cell, 20: 3038–3049.
Meyers BC, Matzke M, Sundaresan V. 2008. The RNA world is alive and well. Trends in Plant Sciences, 13:311-3.
Chen, Z., Tan, J., Inguoff, M., Sundaresan, V. , Berger, F. 2008. The Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 regulates the cell cycle but not the cell fate during male gametogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Development, 135:65-73.
Qu, S., Desai, A., Wing, R.A., Sundaresan, V. 2008. A Versatile Transposon-Based Activation Tag Vector System for Functional Genomics in Cereals and Other Monocot Plants. Plant Physiology, 146:189-99.
Dewitte, W., Scofield, S., Alcasabas, A.A., Maughan, S.C., Menges, M., Braun, N., Collins, C., Nieuwland, J., Prinsen, E., Sundaresan, V., Murray, J.A.H. 2007. Arabidopsis CYCD3 D-type cyclins link cell proliferation and endocycles and are rate-limiting for cytokinin responses Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104:14537-14542.
Griffith, M.E., Mayer, U., Capron, A., Ngo, Q., Surendrarao A., McClinton, R., Jurgens, G., Sundaresan, V. 2007. The TORMOZ gene encodes a nucleolar protein required for regulated division planes and embryo development in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 19: 2246-2263.
Johnson, C., Bowman, L., Adai, A., Vance, V., Sundaresan, V. 2006. CSRDB: a small RNA integrated database and browser resource for cereals. Nucleic Acids Res. 35: D829-D833.
Johnson, C., Sundaresan, V. 2007. Regulatory small RNAs in plants. In Plant Systems Biology Birkhauser, Springer-Verlag, Switzerland. pp. 99-113.
Ngo, Q.A., Moore, J.M., Baskar R., Grossniklaus, U., and Sundaresan, V. 2007. The Arabidopsis glauce mutant reveals a novel regulatory function of the female gametophyte in autonomous endosperm development and expression of paternal alleles during early embryogenesis. Development, 134: 4107-4117.
Pagnussat, G., Yu, H.-J., Sundaresan, V. 2007. Cell-fate switch of synergid to egg cell in Arabidopsis eostre mutant embryo sacs arises from mis-expression of the BEL1-Like Homeodomain gene BLH1. The Plant Cell, 19:3578-92.
Courses:
GGG
201A
Transmission Genetics
PLB
112
Plant Growth and Development
Winter
MCB
160L
Principles of Genetics Laboratory
Fall
Personal Interests:
Music: Jazz and Indian classical