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Dr. Veerappan is a Molecular Geneticist. His major research focus is to understand the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the model legume plant “Medicago truncatula.” Before coming to Eastern, Dr. Veerappan completed his post-doctoral training at the University of North Texas and Oklahoma State University. He earned his Ph.D. (Biology) from Texas Tech University, M.Phil. (Biology) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and M.Sc. (Agriculture) and B.Sc. (agriculture) from Annamalai University, India.
Chen N, Veerappan V, Kang M, Abdelmageed H and Allen RD. (2018) HSI2/VAL1 silences AGL15 to regulate the developmental transition from seed maturation to vegetative growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 30:600-619.
Veerappan V, Jani M, Kadel K, Troiani T, Gale R, Mayes T, Shulaev E, Wen J, Mysore KS, Azad KR, and Dickstein R. (2016) Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing. BMC Genomics. 17:141.
Veerappan V, Chen N, Reichert AI, and Allen RD. (2014) HSI2/VAL1 PHD-like domain promotes H3K27 trimethylation to repress the expression of seed maturation genes and complex transgenes in Arabidopsis seedlings. BMC Plant Biology. 14:293.
Veerappan V, Kadel K, Alexis N, Scott A, Kryvoruchk I, Sinharoy S, Taylor M, Udvardi M, and Dickstein R. (2014) Keel petal incision: a simple and efficient method for genetic crossing in Medicago truncatula. Plant Methods, 10:11.
Veerappan V, Wang J, Kang M, Lee J, Tang Y, Jha AK, Shi H, Palanivelu R, and Allen RD. (2012) A novel HSI2 mutation in Arabidopsis affects the PHD-like domain and leads to derepression of seed-specific gene expression. Planta, 236 (1):1-17.
