According to Wikipedia “ABA is light-sensitive and costly to make. Pyrabactin is relatively inexpensive, easy to make, and not sensitive to light.” Then why buying ABA cost around £60 and PYR is about 8 times more expensive (around £800)? Any use of PYR in the field for improving drought resistance?
The price of a synthetic compound depends on volume of sales, Sean Cutler can be informative for its availaibility to experiments, http://www.pnas.org/content/110/29/12132.full.pdf
Thanks! quite a nice paper you suggested comparing ABA, Quinabactin and Pyrabactin. I understand about sales volume, in that case, price is high because lower sales volume and therefore not economically viable to be used for large scale. Maybe other issues why it is not use on large scale too.
Might be that in arid lands, Partial Root Irrigation makes the same effect at no cost
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