Recent Publications

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Johnson, C., Sundaresan, V. 2007.

Regulatory small RNAs in plants. In Plant Systems Biology Birkhauser, Springer-Verlag, Switzerland. pp. 99-113.

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.

Sundaresan, V. 2005.

Control of seed size in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 50: 17887­17888.

Kumar, C.S., Wing, R.A., Sundaresan, V. 2005.

Efficient insertional mutagenesis in rice using the maize En/Spm elements. The Plant Journal 44: 879-897.

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.

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

Nishal, B., Tantikanjana, T., Sundaresan, V., 2005.

An Inducible Targeted Tagging System for Localized Saturation Mutagenesis in Arabidopsis.
Plant Physiology 137:3-12.

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

Tantikanjana T, Mikkelsen M.D, Hussain M, Halkier B.A, 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.

Hirochika H, Guiderdoni E, An G, Hsing YI, Eun MY, Han C.D, 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.

Kolesnik, T.,   Szeverenyi, I., Bachmann , D., Kumar, C.S., 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.

Reddy, T.V., Agashe, B., Kaur, J., Sundaresan , V. and Siddiqi, I. , 2003.

The DUET Gene is Necessary for Chromosome Organization and Progression During Male Meiosis in Arabidopsis and Encodes a PHD Finger Protein. Development 130:5975-87.

Yang, S.L.,   Xie, L.F.,   Mao,H.-Z., Puah, C.S., Yang, W.C., Jiang, L., Sundaresan,V., and Ye,D., 2003.

The TAPETUM DETERMINANT 1 Gene Is Required for Cell Specialization in The Arabidopsis Anther.  
The Plant Cell   15 :2792-804 .

Kwee, H.S., and Sundaresan, V. , 2003.

The NOMEGA gene required for female gametophyte development encodes the putative APC6/CDC16 component of the Anaphase Promoting Complex in Arabidopsis.  The Plant Journal   36 :853-866.

Buell, C.R., and Sundaresan, V., 2003.

A workshop on establishing a rice resource center in the United States. Plant Physiology   132 :1137.

Kumaran M., Bowman, J.L., and Sundaresan, V., 2002.

YABBY Polarity Genes Mediate Repression of KNOX Homeobox Genes in Arabidopsis.
The Plant Cell 14:2761-2770.

Selected Older Publications

Rajani, S. and Sundaresan, V., 2001.

The Arabidopsis myc/bHLH gene ALCATRAZ enables cell separation in fruit dehiscence.
Current Biology 11:1914-1922.

Tantikanjana, T., Yong J.W.H., Letham, D.S., Griffith, M., Hussain, M., Ljung, K., Sandberg, G., and Sundaresan, V., 2001.

Control of Axillary Bud Initiation and Shoot Architecture in Arabidopsis through the SUPERSHOOT gene. Genes and Development 15:1577-1588.

Ramachandran, S. and Sundaresan, V., 2001.

Transposons as Tools for Functional Genomics. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 39:243-252.

Parinov, S. and Sundaresan, V., 2000. Functional genomics in Arabidopsis:

Large scale insertional mutagenesis complements the genome sequencing project. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 11:157-161.

Yang, W.C. and Sundaresan, V., 2000.

Genetics of gametophyte biogenesis in Arabidopsis. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 3:53-57.

Parinov, S., Mayalagu, S., Ye, D., Yang, W.C., Kumaran, M., and Sundaresan,V., 1999.

Analysis of flanking sequences from Ds insertion lines: A database for reverse genetics in Arabidopsis.
The Plant Cell 11:2263-2270.

Yang, W.C., Ye, D., Xu, J., and Sundaresan, V., 1999.

The SPOROCYTELESS gene of Arabidopsis is required for initiation of sporogenesis and encodes a novel nuclear protein. Genes and Development 13 :2108-2117.

Kumaran, M.K., Ye, D., Yang, W.C., Griffith, M.E., Chaudhury, A.M., and Sundaresan, V., 1999.

Molecular cloning of Abnormal Floral Organs: A gene required for flower development in Arabidopsis.
Sexual Plant Reproduction 12:118-122.

Colasanti, J., Zhuang, Y., and Sundaresan, V., 1998.

The indeterminate gene encodes a zinc-finger protein and regulates a leaf-generated signal required for the transition to flowering in maize. Cell 93:593-603.

Sundaresan, V., 1996. Horizontal spread of transposon mutagenesis:

Old elements find new uses. Trends in Plant Sciences 1:184-190.

Springer, P., McCombie, R., Sundaresan, V., and Martienssen, R., 1995.

Gene trap tagging of Prolifera, an MCM2/3/5 homolog in Arabidopsis. Science 268: 877-880.

Sundaresan, V., Springer, P., Volpe, T., Haward, S., Jones, J.D.G., Dean, C., Ma, H., and Martienssen, R.,1995.

Patterns of gene action in plant development revealed by enhancer trap and gene trap transposable elements. Genes and Development 9:1797-1810.