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    Refining Value Sensitive Design: A (Capability-Based) Procedural Ethics Approach to Technological Design for Well-Being
    with Dylan Cawthorne
    Science and Engineering Ethics 26 (5): 2629-2662. 2020.
    Fundamental questions in value sensitive design include whether and how high-tech products/artefacts could embody values and ethical ideals, and how plural and incommensurable values of ethical and social importance could be chosen rationally and objectively at a collective level. By using a humanitarian cargo drone study as a starting point, this paper tackles the challenges that VSD’s lack of commitment to a specific ethical theory generates in practical applications. Besides, it highlights ho…Read more
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    Carotenoids are essential components in all plants. Their accumulation in wheat seed determines the endosperm colour, which is an important quality trait in wheat. In this study, we report the isolation of BAC clones containing genes coding for three different enzymes of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway: phytoene synthase, phytoene desaturase, and ζ-carotene desaturase. Primers were designed on the basis of wheat ESTs similar to the sequences of these three genes in other species, and used to…Read more
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    The Hardness locus on chromosome 5D is the main determinant of grain texture in hexaploid wheat. The related genes Puroindoline-a and -b and Grain Softness Protein are tightly linked at this locus. Mutations in the Pina-D1 and Pinb-D1 genes are associated with increased grain hardness. We report here the complete sequence of a 101-kb BAC clone from Triticum monococcum which includes these three genes, and its comparison with the orthologous region in rice. The genes Gsp-A m1, Pina-A m1 and Pinb-…Read more
  • Construction and characterization of a half million clone BAC library of durum wheat
    with N. Chantret, X. Kong, Y. Gu, O. D. Anderson, T. Fahima, A. Distelfeld, and J. Dubcovsky