A man and a woman in a lab with plants will tall, green, slender stems.
Biologist Venkatesan Sundaresan, left, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, has received a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his groundbreaking work on plant reproduction. Sundaresan’s team currently includes Ph.D. candidate Hui Ren, and members are working to improve a method for producing clonal plant seeds called “synthetic apomixis.” (Jael Mackendorf/UC Davis)

Sundaresan wins Wolf Prize in Agriculture

Team's discoveries point to higher yields for small-scale farmers

  • by Liana Wait

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.

The Wolf Prize in Agriculture, considered by many the Nobel Prize for Agriculture, has been awarded annually since 1978 and carries an award of $100,000. Sundaresan shares his award with Joanne Chory of the Salk Institute and Elliot Meyerowitz of the California Institute of Technology.

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