Plant stress responses are mediated by the release of chemical compounds called exudates into rhizosphere. These substances include primary and secondary plant metabolites play an important role in defense mechanism. The identification, characterization study these can open door to numerous applications, from greener agriculture enhanced phytoremediation. This paper critically reviews most rele...

Controlling ultraviolet light at the nanoscale using optical Mie resonances holds great promise for a diverse set of applications, such as lithography, sterilization, and biospectroscopy. Access to requires materials with high refractive index wide band gap energy. Here, authors systematically search by computing frequency-dependent permittivity 338 binary semiconductors insulators from first p...

Researchers have found a big interest in biological application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Evaluating many diseases, staging them and studying the chemical structures of different formed compounds in diseases are some of the research applications of FTIR. Cancer is also one of these diseases. Researchers are trying to set up FTIR methods to detect and diagnose cancer cel...

Yerba mate (YM) is massively produced and consumed as an infusion in South America and is gaining popularity all over the world. This product is obtained from the dried leaves of Ilex paraguariensis Saint Hilaire, mixed with fragments of its dried branches. For its commercialization YM must have a minimum percentage of leaves according to a standard classification. Until now, composition quanti...