OT: Abscisic Acid (plant hormone) Fights Inflammation

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How Natural Drug, Abscisic Acid, Fights Inflammation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209152748.htm

Perhaps one of the reasons it's beneficial to eat your veggies

Location and timing of ABA biosynthesis

Released during desiccation of the vegetative tissues and when roots

encounter soil compaction.[9]

Synthesized in green fruits at the beginning of the winter period

Synthesized in maturing seeds, establishing dormancy

Mobile within the leaf and can be rapidly translocated from the roots to the

leaves by the transpiration stream in the xylem

Produced in response to environmental stress, such as heat stress, water

stress, salt stress

Synthesized in all plant parts, e.g., roots, flowers, leaves and stems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscisic_acid

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