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Abstract
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Abscisic acid agonists suitable for optimizing plant water use
Introduction
Plants produce biomass using conversion of solar radiation into chemically stored energy by recruiting CO2 and water (Barber, 2009). The influx of atmospheric CO2 and the efflux of water vapor at the leaf surface share the same stomatal diffusion path (Franks et al., 2013), which inherently links CO2 assimilation to water vapor loss (Farquhar et al., 1989). The low abundance and the shallow gradient of CO2 across the stomata compared to water vapor gradients lead to exhaustive water vapor mobilization of soil-borne water into the atmosphere during CO2 uptake. Unlike the ubiquity of CO2, replenishment of freshwater resources by rainfall and aquifers varies on a large spatial and temporal scale (Rodell et al., 2018). Climate change and overexploitation of groundwater resources are expected to exacerbate the current non-sustainable water use in agriculture (Rodell et al., 2018). On a global scale, water scarcity is the dominant cause for yield losses in crops (FAO, 2021). To maintain or increase current crop productivity, there is an urgent need for water-use-efficient crops.
Water use efficiency (WUE) refers to carbon capture per unit of water consumed, however, there a
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Scientific Program
University of Groningen, Holland
Ben L. Feringa obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands under the guidance of Professor Hans Wynberg. After working as a research scientist at Shell in the Netherlands and the UK, he was appointed lecturer and in 1988 full professor at the University of Groningen and named the Jacobus H. van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences in 2004. He was elected Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he was appointed Academy Professor and he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands. Feringa’s research has been recognized with numerous awards including the Körber European Science Award (2003), the Spinoza Award (2004), the Prelog gold medal (2005), the Norrish Award of the ACS (2007), the Paracelsus medal (2008), the Chirality medal (2009), the RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award (2011), the Humboldt award (2012), the Nagoya gold medal (2013), the ACS Cope Scholar Award (2015), the Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize (2015), the August-Wilhelm-von-Hoffman Medal (2016), The 2016 Nobel prize in Chemistry, the Tetrahedron Prize (2017) and the European Chemistry Gold M