A New Drought-Protective Small Molecule 'Drug' for Crops (7 of 7) (IMAGE)

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A New Drought-Protective Small Molecule 'Drug' for Crops (7 of 7)

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Representation of the old ABA-mimc quinabactin bound to one of its cellular receptors illustrating contacts to the receptor at only one of the two possible locations (yellow dashes). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 25, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.S. Vaidya at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Dynamic control of plant water use using designed ABA receptor agonists."

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Sean Cutler, UC-Riverside

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