Two researchers at the University of California, Davis have been awarded a VinFuture Prize in recognition of their work developing self-cloning crops, a breakthrough for sustainable agriculture.
Venkatesan Sundaresan has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for key discoveries in plant biology that have had enormous impact on crop improvement. Sundaresan is a Distinguished Professor in the University of California, Davis, Department of Plant Sciences and the Department of Plant Biology.