Soft matter exhibits a multitude of intrinsic physico-chemical attributes. Their mechanical
properties are crucial characteristics to define their performance. In this context, the rigidity of …

Soil salinization affecting different crops is one of the serious threats to global food security.
Soil salinity affects 20% and 33% of the total cultivated and irrigated agricultural lands …

Saline soils are a major issue for agriculture because salt turns agronomically useful lands
into unproductive areas. The United Nations Environment Program estimates that …

In the light of intensification of cropping practices and changing climatic conditions,
nourishing a growing global population requires optimizing environmental sustainability and …

Rhizobacteria have been reported to be beneficial to the plants in many different ways.
Increasing salinity in the coastal agricultural zones has been shown to be a threat to the …

Membrane vesicles are ubiquitous carriers of molecular information. A broad understanding
of the biological functions of membrane vesicles in bacteria remains elusive because of the …

Mutations in the rfa operon leading to severely truncated lipopolysaccharide (LPS)
structures are associated with pleiotropic effects on bacterial cells, which in turn generates a …

The atomic force microscope is a widely used surface scanning apparatus capable of
reconstructing at a nanometric scale resolution the 3D morphology of biological samples …

Abstract MS2, Phi X 174 and PRD1 bacteriophages are commonly used as surrogates to
evaluate pathogenic virus behavior in natural aquatic media. The interfacial properties of …

Abstract Force-distance (FD) curve-based atomic force microscopy is a valuable tool to
simultaneously image the structure and map the biophysical properties of biological …