Sean Cutler
Sean R. Cutler is a professor of plant cell biology at the University of California, Riverside. In 2009 Cutler showed how abscisic acid, a naturally-produced plant stress hormone, helps plants survive by inhibiting their growth in times of drought. Cutler also discovered pyrabactin, a synthetic chemical that mimics abscisic acid. His research was named by Science magazine as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year.[http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2228 UC Riverside Plant Scientist’s Research Ranked on Top Ten Breakthrough List for 2009 (University of California)] In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Cutler received his B.A. and M.S. from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
He is a member of the Editorial Board for PNAS.{{cite web | url=https://www.pnas.org/page/about/editorial-board | title=Editorial Board }} He was elected to the [https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/sean-cutler-ceieaq/ US National Academy of Sciences] in 2018.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101021091000/http://genomics.ucr.edu/people/person-details.php?id=372 Sean Cutler - UCR website]
- [http://ucanr.org/blogs/food/index.cfm?tagname=pyrabactin Imagine there’s no hunger... It’s easy if you try (University of California)]
- [http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/May/01050901.asp Organic compound comes to the aid of thirsty plants, Royal Society of Chemistry, 01 May 2009]
- [http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/what-if-scientists-didnt-compete/ What if Scientists Didn’t Compete? (New York Times article on Cutler, April 30, 2009)]
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