Dr Sundar Kalaipandian

Advance Queensland Industry Re

School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Faculty of Science

Advance Queensland Industry Researc

Centre for Horticultural Science
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Overview

Dr Sundar Kalaipandian obtained his BSc (Agriculture) and MSc (Plant Breeding and Genetics) from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. He worked as a senior research fellows at Sugarcane Breeding Institute in India. He then went to undertake his PhD in Biotechnology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from Academia Sinica. He got a postdoctoral position to work at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and moved to Australia. He worked for University of Adelaide and Biosecurity Queensland. Then, he joined as a research fellow at the University of Queensland. Currently, he received an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship project to develop a commercial tissue culture protocol on date plam.

Sundar has developed expertise in genetics, plant breeding, biotechnology, genomics, and bioinformatics during his career. He has specialized in the development of abiotic and biotic stress tolerant varieties. He has worked on several plant species including sugarcane, rice, maize, Arabidopsis, wheat, coconut, date palm, Australian native plant species and weeds. He has experience in developing strong collaborations with national and international organizations, and private industries. He is interested in commercialization of scientific technologies for farmers and bringing various technologies to field. He is also interested to work on Australian native plant species and environmental factors that affect their germination and growth. Apart from scientific skills, he is taking various roles in preparation of collaborative agreements, biosecurity documents, project and budget management activities.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, National Chung Hsing University

Publications

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Supervision

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Available Projects

  • Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship project on the development of commercial tissue culture technology for date palm is available for students.

  • Mapping of the coconut growing and suitable region in Australia and DNA-sequencing of the Australian coconut population is available for students.

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Perera, Lalith, Ramaswamy, Manimekalai, Dissanayake, Pavani Dulanja, Yang, Chongxi and Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian (2024). Breeding and genetics for coconut improvement. The coconut: botany, production and uses. (pp. 111-125) edited by Steve W. Adkins, Julianne M. Biddle, Amirhossein Bazrafshan and Sundaravelpandian Kalaipandian. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United States: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781789249736.0008

  • Kong, Eveline Y.Y., Mu, ZhiHua, Vidhanaarachchi, Vijitha R. M., Nguyen, Quang Thien, Sisunandar, Sisunandar, Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian and Panis, Bart (2024). Coconut biotechnology. The coconut: botany, production and uses. (pp. 143-158) edited by Steve W. Adkins, Julianne M. Biddle, Amirhossein Bazrafshan and Sundaravelpandian Kalaipandian. Wallingford, United Kingdom: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781789249736.0010

  • Hebbar, Kukkehalli Balachandra, Ramesh, Shunmugiah Veluchamy, Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian and Adkins, Steve W. (2024). Coconut production under a changing climate. The coconut: botany, production and uses. (pp. 46-57) edited by Steve W. Adkins, Julianne M. Biddle, Amirhossein Bazrafshan and Sundaravelpandian Kalaipandian. Wallingford, Oxford, United States: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781789249736.0004

  • Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian, Biddle, Julianne and Adkins, Steve W. (2024). Global coconut trade, economy and the value chain. Botany, production and uses. (pp. 193-205) edited by Steve W. Adkins, Julianne M. Biddle, Amirhossein Bazrafshan and Sundar Kalaipandian. London, United Kingdom: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781789249736.0013

  • Ramesh, Shunmugiah Veluchamy, Hebbar, Kukkehalli Balachandra, Bhat, Ravi, Subramanian, Periasamy, Sukumar, P. Abhin, Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian and Adkins, Steve W. (2024). Physiological and nutritional disorders of coconut. The coconut: botany, production and uses. (pp. 83-98) edited by Steve W. Adkins, Julianne M. Biddle, Amirhossein Bazrafshan and Sundaravelpandian Kalaipandian. Wallingford, Oxford, United States: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781789249736.0006

  • Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian, V.S., Ramesh, Beveridge, Fernanda Caro, Mu, Zhihua and Adkins, Steve (2022). Biodiversity for nutritive gains: values, benefits, and threats. Conceptualizing plant-based nutrition: bioresources, nutrients repertoire and bioavailability. (pp. 1-17) edited by Ramesh S.V. and Shelly Praveen. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-4590-8_1

  • Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian and Xue, Gang-Ping (2018). Rapid and quantitative CELD assay to measure the specificity of transcription factor-DNA-binding interactions and identify cis-elements. Plant description factors: methods and protocols. (pp. 307-324) edited by Nobutoshi Yamaguchi. New York, United States: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8657-6_18

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Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship project on the development of commercial tissue culture technology for date palm is available for students.

  • Mapping of the coconut growing and suitable region in Australia and DNA-sequencing of the Australian coconut population is available for students.