Venkatesan Sundaresan

Indian american plant geneticist.

Venkatesan Sundaresan (born 1952) is an Indian-American biologist and professor in the Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on plant reproduction, including using synthetic apomixis to clone hybrid strains of commercial crops like rice and maize. Sundaresan was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2023 and received the 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture "for key discoveries on plant developmental biology of relevance to crop improvement". In 2025, he received an award in VinFuture Prize along with others for the d

Abbreviations: Sundaresan
Occupations: plant geneticist, botanist
Citizenships: United States, India
Dates: 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Direct attributions: 9 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 10 plants, 0 fungi

9 plants attributed, 1 plant contributed to10 plants:

Memecylon tirunelvelicum Murugan, Manickam & Sundaresan 2001
plant species in the melastomataceae family
Memecylon tirunelvelicum is a plant species endemic to the Tinurelveli Hills in Tamil Nadu, India. It is known from only 3 localities in the Western Ghat Mountains, at elevations of 900–1100 m. Memecylon tirunelvelicum is a tree up to 4 m tall. Leaves are opposite, ovate to lanceolate, pointed at the tip, up to 9 cm long. Flowers are blue, about 1 cm in diameter.
Beilschmiedia tirunelvelica Manickam, Murugan, Jothi & Sundaresan 2007
endangered plant species in the lauraceae family
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Symplocos kothayarensis Sundaresan, Jothi, S.Rajkumar & Manickam 2003
plant species in the symplocaceae family
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Miliusa tirunelvelica Murugan, Manickam, Sundaresan & Jothi 2004
plant species in the annonaceae family
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Memecylon manickamii Murugan, Sundaresan & Jothi 2000
plant species in the melastomataceae family
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Sonerila longipetiolata Josephine, Manickam, Murugan, Sundaresan & Jothi 2003
plant species in the melastomataceae family
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Memecylon courtallense Manickam, Murugan, Jothi & Sundaresan 2007
plant species in the melastomataceae family
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Hedyotis ramarowii var. kannikattica Sundaresan, Manickam, Jothi & Murugan 2002
plant variety in the rubiaceae family
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Cissus xavierensis Manickam, Murugan, Sundaresan, Jothi & Chellad. 2003
plant species in the vitaceae family
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Heptapleurum agasthiyamalayanum (Manickam, Murugan, Sundaresan & Jothi) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett 2020
plant species in the araliaceae family
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