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Institutional refusal to offer assisted dying: A response to Shadd and Shadd by Sumner, L.W.

“…Ever since medical assistance in dying (MAID) became legal in Canada in 2016, controversy has enveloped the refusal by many faith‐based institutions to allow…”
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GC–MS SPME profiling of rhizobacterial volatiles reveals prospective inducers of growth promotion and induced systemic resistance in plants by Farag, Mohamed A., Ryu, Choong-Min, Sumner, Lloyd W., Paré, Paul W.

“…SPME utilized for profiling of volatiles in Bacillus subtilis (GB03) and B. amyliquefaciens (IN937a) revealed significant differences in volatile composition…”
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Overexpression of WXP1, a putative Medicago truncatula AP2 domain-containing transcription factor gene, increases cuticular wax accumulation and enhances drought tolerance in transgenic alfalfa (Medicago sativa) by Zhang, J.Y, Broeckling, C.D, Blancaflor, E.B, Sledge, M.K, Sumner, L.W, Wang, Z.Y

“…The identification of leaf wax genes involved in stress tolerance is expected to have great potential for crop improvement. Here we report the characterization…”
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Potential of metabolomics as a functional genomics tool by Bino, Raoul J., Hall, Robert D., Fiehn, Oliver, Kopka, Joachim, Saito, Kazuki, Draper, John, Nikolau, Basil J., Mendes, Pedro, Roessner-Tunali, Ute, Beale, Michael H., Trethewey, Richard N., Lange, B. Markus, Wurtele, Eve Syrkin, Sumner, Lloyd W.

“…Metabolomics is developing as an important functional genomics tool; however, there is still room for technical improvements in both the large-scale…”
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Metabolic profiling and systematic identification of flavonoids and isoflavonoids in roots and cell suspension cultures of Medicago truncatula using HPLC–UV–ESI–MS and GC–MS by Farag, Mohamed A., Huhman, David V., Lei, Zhentian, Sumner, Lloyd W.

“…HPLC–UV–ESI–MS/MS and GC/MS were used for metabolic profiling and systematic identification of polyphenols in Medicago truncatula root and cell culture…”
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Genomics-based selection and functional characterization of triterpene glycosyltransferases from the model legume Medicago truncatula by Achnine, L, Huhman, D.V, Farag, M.A, Sumner, L.W, Blount, J.W, Dixon, R.A

“…The biosynthesis of triterpene saponins is poorly characterized in spite of the importance of these glycosylated secondary metabolites for plant defense and…”
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Mapping the proteome of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) by Watson, B.S, Asirvatham, V.S, Wang, L, Sumner, L.W

“…A survey of six organ-/tissue-specific proteomes of the model legume barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) was performed. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel…”
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Reply to Williams by Sumner, L. W.

“…In her review of my book Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law, Glenys Williams raises a number of substantive objections to its argument. In this note I…”
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A proposed framework for the description of plant metabolomics experiments and their results by Hardy, Nigel, Jenkins, Helen, Beckmann, Manfred, Draper, John, Smith, Aileen R, Taylor, Janet, Fiehn, Oliver, Goodacre, Royston, Bino, Raoul J, Hall, Robert, Kopka, Joachim, Lane, Geoffrey A, Lange, B Markus, Liu, Jang R, Mendes, Pedro, Nikolau, Basil J, Oliver, Stephen G, Paton, Norman W, Rhee, Sue, Roessner-Tunali, Ute, Saito, Kazuki, Smedsgaard, Jørn, Sumner, Lloyd W, Wang, Trevor, Walsh, Sean, Wurtele, Eve Syrkin, Kell, Douglas B

“…The study of the metabolite complement of biological samples, known as metabolomics, is creating large amounts of data, and support for handling these data…”
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Methyl jasmonate and yeast elicitor induce differential transcriptional and metabolic re-programming in cell suspension cultures of the model legume Medicago truncatula by Suzuki, H, Reddy, M.S.S, Aziz, N, May, G.D, Huhman, D.V, Sumner, L.W, Blount, J.W, Mendes, P, Dixon, R.A

“…Exposure of cell suspension cultures of Medicago truncatula Gaerth. to methyl jasmonate (MeJA) resulted in up to 50-fold induction of transcripts encoding the…”
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Citrus fruit bitter flavors: isolation and functional characterization of the gene Cm1,2RhaT encoding a 1,2 rhamnosyltransferase, a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of the bitter flavonoids of citrus by Frydman, A, Weisshaus, O, Bar-Peled, M, Huhman, D.V, Sumner, L.W, Marin, F.R, Lewinsohn, E, Fluhr, R, Gressel, J, Eyal, Y

“…Species of the genus Citrus accumulate large quantities of flavanones that affect fruit flavor and have been documented to benefit human health. Bitter…”
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Roger A. Shiner. Freedom of Commercial Expressionn. Oxford: Oxford University Press2003. Pp. xxiv + 3555 by Sumner, L.W.

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Sub-lethal Levels of Electric Current Elicit the Biosynthesis of Plant Secondary Metabolites by Kaimoyo, E, Farag, M.A, Sumner, L.W, Wasmann, C, Cuello, J.L, VanEtten, H

“…Many secondary metabolites that are normally undetectable or in low amounts in healthy plant tissue are synthesized in high amounts in response to microbial…”
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Proteomics of Medicago sativa cell walls by Watson, Bonnie S, Lei, Zhentian, Dixon, Richard A, Sumner, Lloyd W

“…An extraction method for obtaining cell wall proteins from mature alfalfa stems is outlined. Proteins were extracted, profiled by 2-DE, identified classified,…”
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Metabolic Engineering of Plant Cells for Biotransformation of Hesperedin into Neohesperidin, a Substrate for Production of the Low-Calorie Sweetener and Flavor Enhancer NHDC by Frydman, Ahuva, Weisshaus, Oori, Huhman, David V, Sumner, Lloyd W, Bar-Peled, Maor, Lewinsohn, Efraim, Fluhr, Robert, Gressel, Jonathan, Eyal, Yoram

“…Neohesperidin dihydrochalcone (NHDC) is a seminatural, safe, low-calorie sweetener, bitterness blocker, and flavor enhancer with unique properties and…”
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Profiling phenolic metabolites in transgenic alfalfa modified in lignin biosynthesis by Chen, Fang, Duran, Anthony L., Blount, Jack W., Sumner, Lloyd W., Dixon, Richard A.

“…Soluble phenolics, wall-bound phenolics and soluble and core lignin were analyzed in transgenic alfalfa with genetically down-regulated O-methyltransferase…”
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Efficient and Sensitive Method for Quantitative Analysis of Alkaloids in Hardinggrass (Phalaris aquatica L.) by Zhou, Lili, Hopkins, Andrew A, Huhman, David V, Sumner, Lloyd W

“…An efficient high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) method for the analysis of alkaloids in hardinggrass (Phalaris aquatica L.) was developed. The…”
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Apoplastic extracts from a transgenic wheat line exhibiting lesion-mimic phenotype have multiple pathogenesis-related proteins that are antifungal by Anand, A, Lei, Z.T, Sumner, L.W, Mysore, K.S, Arakane, Y, Bockus, W.W, Muthukrishnan, S

“…A transgenic wheat line constitutively expressing genes encoding a class IV acidic chitinase and an acidic beta-1,3-glucanase, showed significant delay in…”
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Politicians, Judges, and the Charter by Sumner, L.W.

“…The complaint is a familiar one: unelected, politically unaccountable judges are using their powers of judicial review to subvert the democratic process by…”
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Michael Tooley, Abortion and Infanticide (Oxford: Clarendon Press1983). Pp. ix + 441. $56.95 Cdn by Sumner, L.W.

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