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Abscisic Acid (ABA) and the Story of Virginia Livingston. The “Four Women Against Cancer”

Fairly current information, 2015 and such.

The presence of ABA in animal tissues has been known since the 1980s (Le Page-Degivry et al., 1986; Li et al., 2011), but has largely been ignored until recently. In early branching metazoans, ABA has been associated to abiotic stress responses (Zocchi et al., 2001) and nutrient-derived ABA has been suggested to…