Weerasin Sonjaroon
Kasetsart University, Thailand
Biography
Weerasin Sonjaroon is pursuing his PhD program in Department of Botany at Kasetsart Univeristy. He is interested in Plant Hormone and Plant Physiology.
Recently, global warming predictions suggest an increase in the temperature by 0.3°C to 0.7°C from 2016 to 2035 (IPCC, 2013). High temperature affects normal plant growth and productivity (Havaux 1993). Brassinosteroids (BRs) can act as a plant growth regulator. BRs has been applied to increase the crop yield as well as to mitigate the effects of biotic and abiotic stresses in plant (Yu et al., 2004). Currently, there are efforts to utilize EBR substances in agriculture. Nevertheless, the extraction of natural BRs from explants has been generally low, and too expensive for large-scale applications (Grove et al. 1979: Serna et al. 2012). Therefore, I offer brassinosteroid mimics which can increase photosynthesis in rice under heat stress similar to natural BRs.