Current External Research Support
Project title: The Consortium for Legume Research: An integrated approach to cotton root rot disease of alfalfa
Source of support: The State of Oklahoma
Investigators: Richard A. Dixon, Joe Bouton, Bruce Roe, Steve Marek, Kiran Mysore, Mary Sledge and Lloyd Sumner
Total award period: 09/01/05 – 08/30/08
Sumner Lab Participants: Wenshing Li, John Snyder

Project title: Functional Analysis of Pollen Exine Assembly
Source of support: National Science Foundation 2010, MCB 0520283
Investigators: Daphne Preuss, Anna Edlund, Robert J. Swanson and Lloyd Sumner
Total award period: 09/01/05 – 08/30/08
Sumner Lab Participants: Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak

Project title: GEPR: Comparative genomics of secretory trichomes – biofactories for production of plant secondary metabolites
Source of support: National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program
Investigators: Richard Dixon, David Marks, Pierre Broun,
Collaborators: Lloyd Sumner and Xuechun (Patrick) Zhao
Total award period: 05/01/06 – 04/30/09
Sumner Lab Participants: Wenshing Li

Project title: An Integrated Functional Genomics Approach towards the Understanding of Artemisinin Metabolism
Source of support: The Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
Investigators: Dianjing Guo (PI) The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Samuel S.M. Sun (Co-PI) The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Lloyd Sumner (Co-PI)
Total award period: 2006-2009
Sumner Lab Participants: Dave Huhman

Current Internal Research Support
Project title: Spatially Resolved and Integrated Transcriptomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics of Medicago sativa Border Cells
Source of support: Noble Foundation
Sumner Lab Participants: Bonnie Watson, Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak

Prior External Research Support
Project title: An integrated approach to functional genomics and bioinformatics in a model legume
Source of support: National Science Foundation
Investigators: Pedro-Mendes (PI), Richard Dixon (Co-PI), Lloyd Sumner, Greg May and Tim Smith (Collaborators)
Total award period: 08/01/02-07/31/05 (Two year extension approved until 7/31/07)

Project title: Metabolomics: A functional genomic tool for deciphering functions of Arabidopsis genes
Source of support: National Science Foundation 2010, MCB 0520140
Investigators: Basil Nilolau, Bernd M. Lange, Oliver Fiehn, Seung Rhee, Lloyd W. Sumner and Ruth Welti
Total award period: 09/01/05 – 08/30/07