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Pyrabactin

Pyrabactin is a synthetic sulfonamide that mimics abscisic acid (ABA), a naturally produced stress hormone in plants that helps them cope with drought conditions by inhibiting growth. ABA can be manufactured for agricultural use; however, ABA is light-sensitive and costly to make. Pyrabactin is relatively inexpensive, easy to make, and not sensitive to light. Unlike ABA, pyrabactin activates only a few of the 14 ABA receptors in the plant needed for effective drought tolerance. Its role as an ABA mimic may make pyrabactin an important tool for protecting crops against drought and cold weather.

The discovery of pyrabactin by Sean Cutler was named a breakthrough research of 2009 by Science magazine.

Pyrabactin (for pyridyl containing ABA activator) is a naphthalene sulfonamide hypocotyl cell expansion inhibitor. A combination of genetic, transcriptomic and physiological evidence demonstrated that pyrabactin activates the ABA pathway in a manner very similar to ABA. As such, pyrabactin is the first ABA agonist that is not an ABA analog and may ultimately lead to the development of a new family of synthetic plant growth regulators.

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References

  1. [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/b3438?lang=en&region=US Pyrabactin], [[Sigma-Aldrich]]
  2. [http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/May/01050901.asp Organic compound comes to the aid of thirsty plants, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1 May 2009]
  3. [http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=841&content_id=CNBP_023706&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=8cebf521-ab3c-49b4-9db7-51071bf18ac7 Pyrabactin – American Chemical Society]
  4. [http://www.physorg.com/news160319874.html Synthetic chemical offers solution for crops facing drought]
  5. [http://scienceblog.com/37837/growing-drought-tolerant-crops-inching-forward/ Growing drought-tolerant crops inching forward (Science Blog)]
  6. (September 2010). "Identification and mechanism of ABA receptor antagonism". Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
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