Principal Investigator · 2015–

Prof. Ananya Rao

Professor of Plant Genetics

Research interests: Crop genetics

Ananya leads the lab. She has never met a rice field she didn’t want to walk through.

Publications

P. Natarajan, D. Okafor, L. Fischer, A. Rao

Nature Plants, 2026Cover articleCited by 3

A. Mehta, J. Brooks, A. Rao

Nature Genetics, 2026Cited by 9

S. Kowalski, K. Desai, A. Rao

bioRxiv, 2026Preprint

D. Okafor, M. Chen, T. Herrera, A. Rao

The Plant Cell, 2025Cited by 41

L. Fischer, R. Iyer, A. Rao

Plant Physiology, 2025Cited by 27

R. Iyer, P. Natarajan, A. Rao

New Phytologist, 2025Cited by 18

J. Brooks, A. Mehta, M. Pillai, A. Rao

Scientific Data, 2025DatasetCited by 64

A. Souza, F. Al-Sayed, A. Rao

International Plant Biology Congress, 2025Conference PaperBest Poster AwardCited by 2

F. Al-Sayed, L. Fischer, A. Rao

Field Crops Research, 2024Cited by 35

M. Chen, D. Okafor, A. Rao

Current Biology, 2024Cited by 88