A unique partnership takes UC Davis students to Lassen Volcanic National Park to study the flora of this special area in far-northeastern California. Local communities and park visitors benefit, too.
Venkatesan Sundaresan has won a Wolf Prize in Agriculture for developing "synthetic apomixis." The method for creating clonal seed at greatly reduced cost is a boon to agriculture, especially for farmers in developing countries.
UC Davis researchers used advanced microscopy to observe plant cell division in real-time, uncovering three phases of cell wall formation. Their work, published in the Journal of Experimental Botany, provides insights into cytokinesis and material recycling.
Venkatesan Sundaresan, a UC Davis expert in rice reproduction and microbiomes, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for groundbreaking research on clonal seeds and drought-tolerant crops.
UC Davis researchers, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute, discovered that DNA mutations in plants are not random but follow a non-random pattern that benefits the plant. This finding challenges existing mutation theories and could aid in crop breeding and disease prevention.
John E. Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition and Health
Faculty
Phytonutrient biochemistry and physiology; Biosynthesis, accumulation and function of carotenoids and polyphenols in plants; Targeted improvement of crop phytonutrient composition and content for enhanced nutritional and medicinal values.
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Former Chair of the Department of Plant Sciences and past John B. Orr Professor of Environmental Plant Sciences (2020-2024)
Plant adaptation to a changing climate, genetics and genomics of leafy salad crops, non-food woody biomass crops for bioenergy. Sustainability, ecosystem services, plants and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Plant breeding, genetics and genomics of quantitative traits; quantitative genetics; use of wild species in crop and germplasm improvement; QTL introgression; marker-assisted selection and genomics in breeding.
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