Dr. Renu Pandey, from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), visited Purdue’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture this month as part of the Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF) Program organized by Purdue and SERB of India and hosted by Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Kashchandra Raghothama, and Dr. Kranthi Varala. During this visit, Dr. Pandey…Read more about Dr. Renu Pandey Visited HLA Department[Read More]
Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on…Read more about Varala Lab Publishes Research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)[Read More]
Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Kranthi Varala, and Dr. Jing Gao (from Electric and Computational Engineering) have won the 2023 Agriculture – Engineering Collaborative Projects Competition for their proposal “EpiAwareNet: Integrating Single-Cell Multi-Omics and Deep Learning for Inference of Nitrogen-Responsive Gene Regulatory Networks in Crop Roots”.
Kranthi Varala presented and chaired a session at the annual Plant Biology meeting. The 5-day conference was held in Savannah, GA this year and attracts about 1-2000 attendees from across the world. Kranthi presented his work on Discovering novel TF regulators using gene regulatory networks built from extremely large expression datasets.
Congratulations to Kranthi Varala and Celina Gomez for receiving 2023 AgSEED grants. Kranthi Varala’s project is “Improving oil content and composition of Camelina seeds through overexpressing novel regulators of lipid biosynthesis.” Wenjing Guan and Petrus Langenhoven are co-PI’s for this project. Celina Gomez’s project is “Using a Citizen Science Approach to Strengthen Research and Extension…Read more about HLA Faculty Received 2023 AgSEED Grants[Read More]
The special issue on “Horticultural plant specialized metabolism,” guest edited by Josh Widhalm and Kranthi Varala, was published in Horticulture Research this week. https://academic.oup.com/hr/pages/horticultural-plant-specialized-secondary-metabolism#.Y2_F0MsC_80.twitter
Kranthi Varala and his graduate student Xiaojin Wang published a paper in collaboration with three other Purdue faculty: Li L, Garsamo M, Yuan J, Wang X, Lam SH, Varala K, Boavida LC, Zhou Y and Liu X (2022) CAND1 is required for pollen viability in Arabidopsis thaliana—a test of the adaptive exchange hypothesis. Front. Plant Sci. 13:866086….Read more about New Paper from Kranthi Varala and Xiaojin Wang[Read More]