Faculty
Department of Plant Biology
 
Venkatesan Sundaresan
Professor
Plant Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
Plant Sciences (CAES)
2133 Life Sciences
Office (530) 754 9677
Lab (530) 754 9852
sundar@ucdavis.edu
http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/labs/sundar/
[Picture of Venkatesan Sundaresan]

Degrees:
1982 - PhD - Harvard University - Biophysics
- - - B.Sc. - University of Poona
- - - M.Sc. - Indian Institute of Technology
- - - M.S. - Carnegie Mellon University

Department and Center Affiliations:
Plant Sciences

Professional Societies:
American Society of Plant Biology
Genetics Society of America

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Genetics
Plant Biology

Publications:
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.

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.

Meyers BC, Matzke M, Sundaresan V. 2008. The RNA world is alive and well. Trends in Plant Sciences, 13:311-3.

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.

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.

Johnson, C., Sundaresan, V. 2007. Regulatory small RNAs in plants. In Plant Systems Biology Birkhauser, Springer-Verlag, Switzerland. pp. 99-113.

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.

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.

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.

Yu, H.-J., Hogan, P.S., Sundaresan, V. 2005. Analysis of the female gametophyte transcriptome of Arabidopsis by comparative expression profiling. . Plant Physiology 139: 1853-1869.

Sundaresan, V. 2005. Control of seed size in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 50: 1788717888.

Pagnussat, G., Yu, H.-J., Ngo, Q., Rajani, S., Mayalagu, S., Johnson, C., Capron, A., Xie, L.-F., Ye, D., Sundaresan, V., 2005. Genetic and molecular identification of genes required for female gametophyte development and function in Arabidopsis. Development 132:603-614

Adai A., Johnson, C., Mlotshwa, S., Archer-Evans, S., Manocha, V., Vance, V., Sundaresan, V., 2005 Computational prediction of miRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Research 15:78-91.

Kumar, C.S., Wing, R.A., Sundaresan, V. 2005. Efficient insertional mutagenesis in rice using the maize En/Spm elements. The Plant Journal 44: 879-892.

Nishal, B., Tantikanjana, T., Sundaresan, V., 2005. An Inducible Targeted Tagging System for Localized Saturation Mutagenesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 137:3-12.

Shi, D.Q., Liu, J., Xiang, Y.H., Sreenivasan R., Ye, D., Sundaresan, V., Yang, W.C., 2005. SLOW WALKER1, Essential for Gametogenesis in Arabidopsis, Encodes a WD40 Protein Involved in 18S Ribosomal RNA Biogenesis. The Plant Cell 17:2340-54.

Jiang, L.X., Yang, S.L, Xie, L.F., Puah, C.S., Zhang. X., Yang, W.C., Sundaresan, V., Ye, D., 2005. VANGUARD1 encodes a pectin methylesterase that enhances pollen tube growth in the Arabidopsis style and transmitting tract. The Plant Cell 17: 584-596..

Tantikanjana T, Mikkelsen MD, Hussain M, Halkier BA, Sundaresan V, 2004. Functional analysis of the tandem-duplicated P450 genes SPS/BUS/CYP79F1 and CYP79F2 in glucosinolate biosynthesis and plant development by Ds transposition-generated double mutants. Plant Physiol. 135:840-848.

Kolesnik, T., Szeverenyi, I., Bachmann , D., Chellian, S.K., Jiang, S., Rengasamy, R., Cai, M., Ma, Z., Sundaresan, V., Ramachandran, S. , 2004. Establishing an Efficient Ac/Ds Tagging System in Rice: Large-Scale Analysis of Ds Flanking Sequences. The Plant Journal 37:301-314.

Hirochika H, Guiderdoni E, An G, Hsing YI, Eun MY, Han CD, Upadhyaya N, Ramachandran S, Zhang Q, Pereira A, Sundaresan V, Leung H, 2004. Rice mutant resources for gene discovery. Plant Mol Biol. 54:325-334.

Research Interests:
Genetics and molecular biology of plant reproduction. Functional genomics of model plants- Arabidopsis and rice. Bioinformatics of small RNAs. Microbiomes and metagenomics.
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Laboratory Personnel:
Life Sciences Addition 2137, 2141 - See our website below:
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Teaching Interests:


Genetics, molecular biology, genomics

Courses Taught:
GGG 201A Transmission Genetics
PLB 112 Plant Growth and Development - Term(s): Winter
MCB 160L Principles of Genetics Laboratory