Imtiyaz Khanday (left) and Venkatesan Sundaresan photographed with cloned rice plants in a green house on the UC Davis campus in 2018. The team's work on creating rice plants that can produce clones ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a plant reproduction biologist at UC Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his groundbreaking work on plant reproduction, which led to a method for ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a distinguished professor of plant biology and plant sciences at UC Davis, has been awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop self-cloning crops for Indian farmers. The ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, distinguished professor in the departments of Plant Biology and Plant Sciences at UC Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for key discoveries on plant ...