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quinabactin

quinabactin noun: a synthetic sulfonamide that improves drought tolerance in plants.

Noun

quinabactin (uncountable)

  1. A synthetic sulfonamide that improves drought tolerance in plants.
    • Similarly, it has been shown that PYL2 can mediate a sulfonamide ABA agonist referred to as quinabactin, which forms a hydrogen bond with PYL2/PP2C to contribute to interference with stomata opening, reduction of water loss, and improvement of drought tolerance in soybean plants and adult...2016 March 4, “CmWRKY1 Enhances the Dehydration Tolerance of Chrysanthemum through the Regulation of ABA-Associated Genes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about quinabactin

What does quinabactin mean?
Quinabactin means a synthetic sulfonamide that improves drought tolerance in plants.
What part of speech is quinabactin?
Quinabactin is a noun.

Words near quinabactin in the dictionary

  1. quin
  2. quin-
  3. quin-zhee
  4. quin-zhees
  5. quina
  6. quinabactin
  7. Quinabigan
  8. quinacainol
  9. quinacetol
  10. quinacid
  11. quinacids

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