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 ...

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 ...

Producing self-cloning plants requires two key steps. First, the researchers used CRISPR/Cas-9 methods to switch off genes related to meiosis, which ensures that the plant’s egg cells have a full set ...

Excessive fertilizer use can be expensive and bad for the environment, but plants require nutrients to grow. To combat this problem, scientists have been attempting to use genetic engineering to help ...

With small changes to cellular machinery, researchers may have begun to transform the relationship between plants and the soil. Their new work could help to develop crops that can collaborate with ...

The accurate measurement of the green fraction (GF), a critical photosynthetic trait in crops, typically relies on RGB image analysis employing segmentation algorithms to identify green pixels within ...

Two researchers at UC Davis have been awarded a VinFuture Prize in recognition of their work developing self-cloning crops, a breakthrough for sustainable agriculture. Venkatesan Sundaresan, a ...